[ovirt-users] Metadata error on hosted engine (fresh install)

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matteo" <mbrancaleoni at voismart.it>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 5:06:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Metadata error on hosted engine (fresh install)
> 
> Well,
> 
> I blindly tried the following:
> 
> * check the name of the block device used for metadata
> * then shutdown the engine vm
> * then stop agent and broker on first host
>  and finally zeroed the block device with
>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dm-12
> 
>  (dm-12 is the block device pointed by metadata file)
> 
> started again broker and agent, after a while the engine
> was started by HA and the metadata was readable.
> 
> now hosted_engine --vm-status works ok and I was able
> to add a 2nd node to the cluster.
> 
> Maybe the metadata block device needs to be cleared when doing iSCSI setup?

Shouldn't be needed.

> 
> Don't know if this is correct, but seems to work ok now.

Do you have a backup of the device with the bad data? Can you check/post
logs of setup and ha?

Thanks and best regards,
-- 
Didi