[ovirt-users] hosted-engine --deploy hanging, vm not responding

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Mark Steckel <mjs at fix.net> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I executed "hosted-engine --deploy" on a fresh CentOS 7.2 install. Before executing the cmd I also installed the he-appliance. (Also ran yum update, installed a few packages and rebooted before doing the hosted engine deploy.)
>
> The process seems to go well but then it hangs here:
>
>           The VM has been started.
>           To continue please install OS and shutdown or reboot the VM.
>
>           Make a selection from the options below:
>           (1) Continue setup - OS installation is complete
>           (2) Abort setup
>           (3) Power off and restart the VM
>           (4) Destroy VM and abort setup
>
>           (1, 2, 3, 4)[1]: 1
>
>           Please reboot or shutdown the VM.
>
>           Verifying shutdown...
>
> From another terminal window I tried accessing the console but received the following:
>
>     # hosted-engine --console
>     The engine VM is running on this host
>     Connected to domain HostedEngine
>     Escape character is ^]
>     error: internal error: character device console0 is not using a PTY
>
> I've also tried option 3 above, but then it comes back with
>
>     Checking for oVirt-Engine status at hosted-engine-1.example.com...
>     [ INFO  ] Engine is still unreachable
>     oVirt-Engine health status page is not yet reachable.
>
> I am admittedly mystified at this point.
>
> Any ideas?

Please check/share the setup log. Thanks.
-- 
Didi