[ovirt-users] Software RAID installation fails

[Fabian Deutsch]

Hey Brian,

did you stick to use auto-partitioning when choosing the RAID setup?

- fabian

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Moyer <bdm310 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I attempt to install oVirt Node (newest ISO;
> ovirt-node-ng-installer-ovirt-4.0-2016062412.iso), the installer fails
> at the very end with the following error if any software RAIDs are
> defined in storage options.
>
> There was an error running the kickstart script at line 7 . This is a fatal
> error and installation will be aborted. The details of this error are:
> [INFO] Trying to create a manageable base from '/'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
> "__ main __", fname, loader, pkg_name)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
> exec code in run_globals
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/__main__.py", line 42,
> in <module>
> CliApplication()
> File "/usr/lib/ python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/__init__.py", line
> 80, in CliApplication
> app.hooks.emit("post -arg -parse", args)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/hooks.py", line 120, in emit
> cb(self.context, •args)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/plugins/core.py", line
> 167, in post_argparse
> app.imgbase.init_layout_from(args.source, init_nvr)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/imgbase.py", line 230,
> in init_layout_from
> self.init_tags_ on(existing_lv)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgbased/imgbase.py", line 217,
> in init_tags_on
> pool.addtag(self.thinpool_tag)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'addtag'
>
> This occurs with standard RAID volumes, with an LVM volume defined on
> top of RAID, and any combination thereof. When the installer is allowed
> to pick it's own storage scheme, it works fine. All of my testing has
> been done on blank physical disks or newly created virtual disks. The
> anaconda and storage logs don't appear to be very useful.
>
> Has anyone else come across this? Thoughts on workarounds or where I
> should be looking next to track down a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
RHEV Hypervisor
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