[ovirt-users] [hosted-engine] Metadata too new error when adding 2nd host

Wed Apr 20 04:17:52 EDT 2016

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Assuming you never deployed a host with ID 52, this is likely a result of a
>> corruption or dirt or something like that.
>
>> I see that you use FC storage. In previous versions, we did not clean such
>> storage, so you might have dirt left.
>
> This is the exact reason for an error like yours. Using dirty block
> storage. Please stop all hosted engine tooling (both agent and broker)
> and fill the metadata drive with zeros.

after moving to global maintenance.

Martin - any advantage of this over '–reinitialize-lockspace'? Besides
that it works also in older versions? Care to add this to the howto page?
Thanks!

>
> You will have to find the proper hosted-engine.metadata file (which
> will be a symlink) under /rhev:
>
> Example:
>
> [root at dev-03 rhev]# find . -name hosted-engine.metadata
>
> ./data-center/mnt/str-01.rhev.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com:_mnt_export_nfs_lv2_msivak/868a1a4e-9f94-42f5-af23-8f884b3c53d5/ha_agent/hosted-engine.metadata
>
> [root at dev-03 rhev]# ls -al
> ./data-center/mnt/str-01:_mnt_export_nfs_lv2_msivak/868a1a4e-9f94-42f5-af23-8f884b3c53d5/ha_agent/hosted-engine.metadata
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 vdsm kvm 201 Mar 15 15:00
> ./data-center/mnt/str-01:_mnt_export_nfs_lv2_msivak/868a1a4e-9f94-42f5-af23-8f884b3c53d5/ha_agent/hosted-engine.metadata
> -> /rhev/data-center/mnt/str-01:_mnt_export_nfs_lv2_msivak/868a1a4e-9f94-42f5-af23-8f884b3c53d5/images/6ab3f215-f234-4cd4-b9d4-8680767c3d99/dcbfa48d-8543-42d1-93dc-aa40855c4855
>
> And use (for example) dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/metadata bs=1M to
> clean it - But be CAREFUL to not touch any other file or disk you
> might find.
>
> Then restart the hosted engine tools and all should be fine.
>
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Wee Sritippho <wee.s at forest.go.th> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I used CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso to install the hosts and the engine.
>>>
>>> The 1st host and the hosted-engine were installed successfully, but the 2nd
>>> host failed with this error message:
>>>
>>> "Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': Metadata version 2 from host 52
>>> too new for this agent (highest compatible version: 1)"
>>
>> Assuming you never deployed a host with ID 52, this is likely a result of a
>> corruption or dirt or something like that.
>>
>> What do you get on host 1 running 'hosted-engine --vm-status'?
>>
>> I see that you use FC storage. In previous versions, we did not clean such
>> storage, so you might have dirt left. See also [1]. You can try cleaning
>> using [2].
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238823
>> [2] https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#lockspace-corrupted-recovery-procedure
>>
>>>
>>> Here is the package versions:
>>>
>>> [root at host02 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ovirt
>>> libgovirt-0.3.3-1.el7_2.1.x86_64
>>> ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-vmconsole-host-1.0.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-host-deploy-1.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-hosted-engine-ha-1.3.5.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-1.3.4.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-release36-007-1.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.6.3.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-setup-lib-1.0.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>>
>>> [root at engine ~]# rpm -qa | grep ovirt
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-base-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-common-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-1.0.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-tools-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-host-deploy-1.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-release36-007-1.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.6.3.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-iso-uploader-3.6.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-extensions-api-impl-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-setup-lib-1.0.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-host-deploy-java-1.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-cli-3.6.2.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-websocket-proxy-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-backend-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-guest-agent-common-1.0.11-1.el7.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-wildfly-8.2.1-1.el7.x86_64
>>> ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay-8.0.5-1.el7.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-websocket-proxy-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-restapi-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-userportal-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-image-uploader-3.6.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc-1.0.6-1.el7.noarch
>>> ovirt-engine-lib-3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are the log files:
>>> https://gist.github.com/weeix/1743f88d3afe1f405889a67ed4011141
>>>
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