[ovirt-users] New install: can't install engine

[Sahina Bose]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Jim Kusznir <jim at palousetech.com> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm trying to set up a new ovirt cluster.  I got it "mostly working"
> earlier, but wanted to change some physical networking stuff, and so I
> thought I'd blow away my machines and rebuild.  I followed the same recipe
> to build it all, but now I'm failing at a point that previously worked.
>
> I've built a 3 node cluster with glusterfs backing (3 brick replica), and
> all that is good and well.  I run the engine-setup --deploy, and it does
> its stuff, asks me (among other things) the admin password, I type in the
> password I want it to use (just like last time), then it says to log into
> the new VM and run engine-setup.  Here's the problem: I try to ssh in as
> root, and it will NOT accept my password.  It worked a couple days ago,
> doing it the exact same way, but it will not work now.
>
> I've destroyed and re-deployed several times, I've even done a low level
> wipe of all three nodes and rebuild everything, and again, it doesn't work.
>
> My only guess is that one of the packages the gdeploy script changed, and
> it has a bug or "new feature" that breaks this for some reason.
> Unfortunately, I do not have the package versions that worked or the
> current list to compare to, so I cannot support this.
>

I doubt that gdeploy changes caused it. It primarily sets up the gluster
cluster and environment to invoke hosted-engine deployment.

Could be a change in the ovirt-engine appliance. Are you able to access the
VM console via vnc? Is the root login disabled in appliance?


>
> In any case, I'm completely stuck here...I can't log in to run
> engine-deploy, and I don't know enough of the console/low level stuff to
> try and hack my way into the VM (eg, to manually mount the disk image and
> replace the password or put my SSH key in).
>
> Suggestions?  Can anyone else replicate this?
>
> --Jim
>
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