[ovirt-users] HA agent fails to start

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk at tbi.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> The answers file shows the setup time of both machines.
>
> On both machines hosted-engine.conf got rotated right before I wrote
> this mail. Is it possible that I managed to interrupt the rotation with
> the reboot so the backup was accurate but the update not yet written to
> hosted-engine.conf?

AFAIK we don't have any rotation mechanism for that file; something
else you have in place on that host?

> [root at cube-two ~]# ls -l /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine
> total 16
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3252 Apr  8 10:35 answers.conf
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1021 Apr 13 09:31 hosted-engine.conf
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1021 Apr 13 09:30 hosted-engine.conf~
>
> [root at cube-three ~]# ls -l /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine
> total 16
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3233 Apr 11 08:02 answers.conf
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1002 Apr 13 09:31 hosted-engine.conf
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1002 Apr 13 09:31 hosted-engine.conf~
>
> On 12.04.16 16:01, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>> Everything seams fine here,
>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf seams to be correctly
>> created with the right name.
>> Can you please check the latest modification time of your
>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf~ and compare it with the
>> setup time?
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk at tbi.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>>> On 04/12/2016 11:32 AM, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk at tbi.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>>>>> Hi oVirt Group,
>>>>>
>>>>> in my attempts to get all aspects of oVirt 3.6 up and running I
>>>>> stumbled upon something I'm not sure how to fix:
>>>>>
>>>>> Initially I installed a hosted engine setup. After that I added
>>>>> another HA host (with hosted-engine --deploy). The host was
>>>>> registered in the Engine correctly and HA agent came up as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> However if I reboot the second host (through the Engine UI or
>>>>> manually) HA agent fails to start. The reason seems to be that
>>>>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf is empty. The backup
>>>>> file ending with ~ exists though.
>>>>
>>>> Can you please attach hosted-engine-setup logs from your additional hosts?
>>>> AFAIK our code will never take a ~ ending backup of that file.
>>>
>>> ovirt-hosted-engine-setup logs from both additional hosts are
>>> attached to this mail.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Here are the log messages from the journal:
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at systemd[1]: Starting oVirt
>>>>> Hosted Engine High Availability Monitoring Agent...
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at ovirt-ha-agent[3747]:
>>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.agent.Agent:ovirt-hosted-engine-ha
>>>>> agent 1.3.5.3-0.0.master started
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at ovirt-ha-agent[3747]:
>>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:Found
>>>>> certificate common name: cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at ovirt-ha-agent[3747]:
>>>>> ovirt-ha-agent
>>>>> ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine ERROR Hosted
>>>>> Engine is not configured. Shutting down.
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at ovirt-ha-agent[3747]:
>>>>> ERROR:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:Hosted
>>>>> Engine is not configured. Shutting down.
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at ovirt-ha-agent[3747]:
>>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.agent.Agent:Agent shutting down
>>>>> Apr 11 07:29:39 cube-two.tbi.univie.ac.at systemd[1]:
>>>>> ovirt-ha-agent.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
>>>>>
>>>>> If I restore the configuration from the backup file and manually
>>>>> restart the HA agent it's working properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> For testing purposes I added a third HA host which turn out to
>>>>> behave exactly the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> /dev/null
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> /dev/null
>
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