[ovirt-users] Failed Glance Image Import Task Cannot Be Removed

[Chris Routh]

No ideas from anyone?

On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 08:13 -0500, Chris Routh wrote:
> Greetings fellow mailing listers,
> 
> I've been using oVirt since September now, and using version 3.5
> currently. When I first setup my small cluster I decided to import a
> CentOS image from the glance image repository. However the first time
> I tried it the import failed to complete. The problem is that oVirt
> has not clued in that this import failed even 2 months and several
> reboots of the entire cluster later. I ended up re-attempting the
> import a day later (this is back in September) and it worked, however
> this invalid task is still in my task list. 
> 
> I tried using a few tricks from this mailing list when I encountered
> this, one was to run a task removal script on the hosted-engine.
> However while that removed other stale tasks like drive copying.. it
> never seems to work for this import task. This task disappears when I
> run the script, but reappears once the hosted-engine is restarted.
> It's stuck.. somewhere. I had settled on giving up on cleaning up this
> nuisance a month ago, and had planned to forget about it; until today.
> 
> Today I am upgrading my storage pool from a simple NFS share on an old
> linux server to a proper NFS volume on a new FreeNAS device.
> Everything was smooth until I moved everything off the old NFS share
> and wanted to put it into maintenance mode so I could cleanly remove
> it from the datacenter. I cannot remove it. Attempting to remove it
> produces the error:
> 
> 
> 
> Operation Canceled
> Error while executing action: Cannot deactivate Data Domain while
> there are running tasks on this data domain.
> -Please wait until tasks will finish and try again. 
> 
> So now I am forced to find the solution to removing this task. I know
> the task's ID is 765780ce but how do I rid myself of this ghost once
> and for all? Also important to mention I have noticed there is a
> 'Locked' disk associated with this task.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Chris Routh 
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