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

[Matt .]

Indeed, that is what I thought, but does this mean I need to reinstall
that whole VM ? And what about the hosted_storare and such ?

2016-07-04 12:36 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
> 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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