[ovirt-users] host-deploy on HE hosts failing: Job for vdsmd.service canceled.

[Daniel Helgenberger]

On 17.06.2015 16:35, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>
>> To: Users at ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:24:35 PM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] host-deploy on HE hosts failing: Job for	vdsmd.service canceled.
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following problem with host-deploy on HE hosts:
>>
>>> 2015-06-17 13:22:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.systemd
>>> plugin.execute:937 execute-output: ('/bin/systemctl', 'stop',
>>> 'vdsmd.service') stderr:
>>> Job for vdsmd.service canceled.
>>>
>>> 2015-06-17 13:22:32 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:152 method
>>> exception
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File "/tmp/ovirt-1WPaDxJOpX/pythonlib/otopi/context.py", line 142, in
>>>    _executeMethod
>>>      method['method']()
>>>    File
>>>    "/tmp/ovirt-1WPaDxJOpX/otopi-plugins/ovirt-host-deploy/vdsm/packages.py",
>>>    line 106, in _packages
>>>      self.services.state('vdsmd', False)
>>>    File "/tmp/ovirt-1WPaDxJOpX/otopi-plugins/otopi/services/systemd.py",
>>>    line 138, in state
>>>      'start' if state else 'stop'
>>>    File "/tmp/ovirt-1WPaDxJOpX/otopi-plugins/otopi/services/systemd.py",
>>>    line 77, in _executeServiceCommand
>>>      raiseOnError=raiseOnError
>>>    File "/tmp/ovirt-1WPaDxJOpX/pythonlib/otopi/plugin.py", line 942, in
>>>    execute
>>>      command=args[0],
>>> RuntimeError: Command '/bin/systemctl' failed to execute
>>> 2015-06-17 13:22:32 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:161 Failed
>>> to execute stage 'Package installation': Command '/bin/systemctl' failed
>>> to execute
>>> 2015-06-17 13:22:32 DEBUG otopi.transaction transaction.abort:131 aborting
>>> 'Yum Transaction'
>>> 2015-06-17 13:22:32 INFO otopi.plugins.otopi.packagers.yumpackager
>>> yumpackager.info:92 Yum Performing yum transaction rollback
>>> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror
>>
>>
>>    I do not have 'standard' (=non ha) hosts; so I cannot tell for the
>> others but suspect it relates to HE.
>
> Yes, it's the hosted-engine HA agent which keeps VDSM up so host-deploy fails on that.
> The capability to re-deploy an hosted-engine host from the Web UI is not available on oVirt 3.5, it will included in 3.6; please help us testing it on the first beta in  a few weeks.
>
> By the way, why are you trying to re-deploy an host-deploy host from the web UI?
Ok, did not know about that. I use 'Reinstall' from the UI.

Until now, I thought the best way to update the hosts after new engine 
relases was:
1- update engine
2. set host to maintane
4. yum update on host for latest vdsm
3- Use reinstall from UI.

Please advise!


>
>> Steps:
>> 1. set the host to maintenance
>> At this point, only the HE datacenter is still mounted:
>> mount |grep nfs
>> nexstor01.sec.int.m-box.de:/volumes/ovirt/engine on
>> /rhev/data-center/mnt/nexstor01.sec.int.m-box.de:_volumes_ovirt_engine
>> type nfs
>> (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,soft,nosharecache,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=6,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.11.0.30,mountvers=3,mountport=58144,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.11.0.30)
>>
>> 2. Reinstall host
>> -> Error, host deactivated (Job for vdsmd.service canceled.)
>>
>> 3. A workaround is to shutdown sanlock:
>>
>> # systemctl stop vdsmd
>> Job for vdsmd.service canceled.
>>
>> # sanlock shutdown
>> # systemctl stop vdsmd
>>
>> 4. Now, host deploy works as expected.
>>
>>
>> Versions:
>> EL7 centos
>> ovirt-3.5.2 -3.5.3
>> sanlock-3.2.2-2.el7.x86_64
>> vdsm 4.14.14 - 4.14.20
>>
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