[ovirt-users] Cannot add Hosted Engine Host because of missing answersfile

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, the issue is that I don't have that info on the shared storage
> indeed. I was wondering if I just can create it manually.

It's not that easy and not that safe.
It will be much easier and quicker to simply redeploy the first host.

> I would like to add some to the documentation there if it's possible.
>
> Logs will be posted :)
>
> 2016-07-04 10:44 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Sure I can, I will attach them today.
>>>
>>> The install failed at the end as the installer/deploy didn't like my
>>> hostfile on the vdsm host where I was doing the install. The install
>>> of the engine went fine.
>>
>> Do you mean it failed on the first host?
>> The configuration is written on the shared storage if and only if the
>> first host successfully deployed.
>> If you have an issue on the first host you cannot simply add other
>> hosts and you have to fix there first.
>>
>>> I don't think it's a bug, it could be tackled when such thing happens
>>> but still, it was a config issue what actually shouldn't be an issue
>>> to let the full install succeed.
>>>
>>> Do you upfront have an idea if I need to do a full new deploy ?
>>>
>>> I will grab the logs for you later on.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>> Do you want them in a bugreport ?
>>
>> Let's see the logs before
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> 2016-07-04 10:03 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> Apperently there has been something gone wrong with the hosted engine
>>>>> install which I can perfectly start but cannot add any Host to the HA
>>>>> setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm missing an answers.conf on my host where I did the installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone an idea if I can fix this without a new full deploy ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm on 3.6.7
>>>>
>>>> Can you please report the version of ovirt-hosted-engine-ha and
>>>> ovirt-hosted-engine-setup from your working hosts?
>>>> Can you please attach hosted-engine-setup logs from your first host?
>>>>
>>>>> Some errorlog:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           --== STORAGE CONFIGURATION ==--
>>>>>
>>>>>           During customization use CTRL-D to abort.
>>>>>           Please specify the storage you would like to use (glusterfs,
>>>>> iscsi, fc, nfs3, nfs4)[nfs3]:
>>>>>           Please specify the full shared storage connection path to
>>>>> use (example: host:/path): filer-01.my-domain.tld:/vol/vol0/oVIRT_HE
>>>>>           The specified storage location already contains a data
>>>>> domain. Is this an additional host setup (Yes, No)[Yes]?
>>>>> [ INFO  ] Installing on additional host
>>>>>           Please specify the Host ID [Must be integer, default: 2]:
>>>>>
>>>>>           --== SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ==--
>>>>>
>>>>> [WARNING] A configuration file must be supplied to deploy Hosted
>>>>> Engine on an additional host.
>>>>> [ ERROR ] 'version' is not stored in the HE configuration image
>>>>> [ ERROR ] Unable to get the answer file from the shared storage
>>>>> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment customization': Unable
>>>>> to get the answer file from the shared storage
>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
>>>>> [ INFO  ] Generating answer file
>>>>> '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20160704062340.conf'
>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
>>>>> [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: this system is not
>>>>> reliable, please check the issue, fix and redeploy
>>>>>           Log file is located at
>>>>> /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20160704062311-eqejnq.log
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope we can fix this.
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