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

Tue Jul 5 05:51:25 UTC 2016

Hi,

I did a new installer re-imported my old engine and it's all fine again.

I think, or it should be nice that the hosted engine install checks
don't rely on dns only. It fails at the end even when you are using
/etc/hosts which should work fine.

It's known that when DNS doesn't work well the engine GUI is getting
slow, but that is just not that big of an issue for the install.

Thanks,

Matt

2016-07-04 18:32 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Indeed, that is what I thought, but does this mean I need to reinstall
>> that whole VM ?
>
> Yes, unfortunately the best option, since you installation never
> completed, is to clean the hosted-engine storage domain and restart
> from scratch.
> If you use the engine appliance (yum install ovirt-engine-appliance)
> the whole installation will take about 15/20 minutes (excluding
> download time).
>
>
>> 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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