[ovirt-users] Installation of host hangs and will not finish installation of host

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Jonas Kirk Pedersen <jkp at asom-net.dk> wrote:
>
> Im and quite new at using mailing list, but here is my current challenge.
>
> I am adding a new host  from a fresh install centos 7. Updated with yum -y
> update and yum install then repo from ovirt v.3.6.

yum install what?

>
> Now the installation of the host is stuck at validating for 2 hours.

"installation" meaning "New host" in the web admin? Something else?

> Have tried to restart vdsmd to see if I cant trigger a failure, but no.
> Did a reboot of the host and that did not help.
> Now it is powered off and the engine is has registered that there is no
> connection to the host with error: "VDSM KVM2 command failed: Connection
> issue null"
>
> Is there a way to cancel a running task?

The word "task" has a quite specific meaning in the engine, and installation
of a host is not a task. Generally speaking, AFAIK, you can't easily cancel
a task.

To debug host installation, while the installation is running, you can check
/tmp of the host. You should be able to find there stuff of ovirt-host-deploy,
which is the program running on the host to deploy it. If you manage to find
the log, please check/post it. Thanks.

Best,
-- 
Didi