[ovirt-users] Ovirt engine-setup fails, "Cannot get JAVA_HOME"

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carter Kindley" <Carter.Kindley at deusmachine.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 11:30:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt engine-setup fails, "Cannot get JAVA_HOME"
> 
> Thanks, Didi!
> 
> That really helped. I could not figure out what was getting parsed to set
> JAVA_HOME, thanks for indicating those scripts. In my environment there is a
> java-home.local;

Probably added by Alon.

> it pulls the home by running # exec java-config
> --select-vm=icedtea-7 --jre-home  , which outputs a warning message because
> I have icedtea-bin-7 installed. I could change this script, or emerge
> icedtea-7 from sources (which is what I'll do, since I am not partial to
> binary builds).

Seems simplest to me.

> OVirt isn't in the main portage tree; I should contact the
> overlay maintainer to correct this script.

That's Alon, iiuc...

Alon - any problem using the binary build?

Best regards,
-- 
Didi

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carter Kindley
> Network Qualified Technician
> Deus Machine, LLC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yedidyah Bar David [mailto:didi at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 11:05 PM
> To: Carter Kindley
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt engine-setup fails, "Cannot get JAVA_HOME"
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carter Kindley" <Carter.Kindley at deusmachine.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 3:06:44 AM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Ovirt engine-setup fails, "Cannot get JAVA_HOME"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > After a long, long time compiling permutations, I went to finish setup
> > of ovirt-engine on my Gentoo testbed. Running engine-setup, I receive
> > an error after answering all prompts:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': Cannot get
> > JAVA_HOME ([u'\x1b[01m\x1b[31;06m!!! ERROR: The vm could not be
> > found\x1b[0m'])
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This machine has icedtea-bin-7.2.5.3, and # echo $JAVA_HOME yields
> > /etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm which is linked to the
> > icedtea-bin VM directory. Any thoughts to get me started?
> 
> The jre to use is determined by the script java-home (usually in
> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/bin, not sure about gentoo and/or your $PREFIX).
> IIRC only openjdk 1.7.0 is supported. If you look at this script, you see
> that if you put in its directory a script called java-home.local it will be
> called instead, thus letting you override that. Just add there a script
> outputting the JAVA_HOME you want and retry.
> 
> Best,
> --
> Didi
> 
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