[ovirt-users] New problem with hosted-engine during "Configuring the management bridge"

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 20:06 -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Thanks John.
> 
> When hosted-engine aborts, it uninstalls everything.
> So there is no webadmin available.
> 
> I've tried modifying the VDSM python code (e.g. 
> /usr/share/vdsm/storage/multipath.py and 
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/tool/service.py) to see/work 
> around what's going wrong, but oddly VDSM does not seem to be affected. 
> I suspect the original code (or bytecodes) are cached somewhere. 
> Restarting vdsmd service has no effect. I'd really appreciate some 
> insight there so I can work around it.
> 
> Does oVirt 3.4.1 work more smoothly with F20? I chose F19 because it's 
> more stable at this point, thinking that things would be more likely to 
> work smoothly. It's not turning out that way... I'm willing to start 
> over with F20 if there's no path forward.

If stable´s what you want, why not start over with CentOS instead?

/K

> 
> -Bob
> 
> On 05/14/2014 07:25 PM, John Taylor wrote:
> > Bob,
> > I remember something like this with an all-in-one install a while back
> > where that error showed up,  but it was kind of red herring with
> > multipath because the real problem was  ovirtmgmt bridge didn't get
> > created. And that was a known problem I think with f19 see
> > http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_TestDay
> > "Important Note: Known Fedora 19 bug: If the ovirtmgmt bridge is not
> > successfully installed during initial host-setup, manually click on
> > the host, setup networks, and add the ovirtmgmt bridge. "
> >
> >   If you can get to webadmin could you try to setup ovirtmgmt manually
> > on the host.
> >
> > -John
> >
> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Bob Doolittle <bob at doolittle.us.com> wrote:
> >> I could really use some help on this one. My efforts to debug VDSM via
> >> instrumenting the python code are not working - the compiled code must be
> >> cached somehow.
> >>
> >> Something is wrong with the way the multipathd service is being restarted.
> >> It doesn't look too me that systemctl is even being called for it.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>    Bob
> >>
> >> On May 13, 2014 1:12 PM, "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com> wrote:
> >>> Maybe this isn't the actual problem after all.
> >>>
> >>> I replaced /sbin/multipath with a script runs the old version, but the
> >>> suppresses those errors and returns exit status 0.
> >>> But "vdsm-tool service-reload multipathd" is still failing and I don't
> >>> know why.
> >>>
> >>> I have attached my vdsm.log file.
> >>>
> >>> Any guidance appreciated. I'll try digging through the python code for
> >>> service.py and see if I can catch it when the multipath configuration is in
> >>> place to see the exact issue.
> >>>
> >>> -Bob
> >>>
> >>> On 05/13/2014 12:27 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have started a new installation as specified in the 3.4.1 release notes
> >>> (fresh Fedora 19 install, yum localinstall
> >>> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release34.rpm).
> >>>
> >>> This is failing in the step "Configuring the management bridge".
> >>>
> >>> Based on the vdsm.log, it appears I am hitting:
> >>> Bug 988995 - vdsm multipath.py restarts mutipathd, cutting the branch vdsm
> >>> sits on
> >>>
> >>> "multipath -F" is returning "invalid keyword: getuid_callout" and it
> >>> appears that this is causing vdsm-tool to abort (although the command exit
> >>> status is 0 and the bug report says that those are only harmless warnings).
> >>>
> >>> There is no workaround stated in that bug report.
> >>>
> >>> Help?
> >>>
> >>> -Bob
> >>>
> >>>
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