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

Wed Apr 20 08:20:55 UTC 2016

> after moving to global maintenance.

Good point.

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

Reinitialize lockspace clears the sanlock lockspace, not the metadata
file. Those are two different places.

> Care to add this to the howto page?

Yeah, I can do that.

Martin

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>>
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