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

[Matteo]

Hi,

----- Il 5-lug-15, alle 7:53, Yedidyah Bar David didi at redhat.com ha scritto:

> ----- 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?

The dump is here:

> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> --
> Didi