[ovirt-users] VDSM service won't start

[Nir Soffer]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:45 PM, paul.greene.va
<paul.greene.va at verizon.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm having an issue with the vdsmd service refusing to start on a fresh
> install of RHEL 7.2, RHEV version 4.0.
>
> It initially came up correctly, and the command "ip a" showed a "vdsmdummy"
> interface and a "ovirtmgmt" interface. However after a couple of reboots,
> those interfaces disappeared, and running "systemctl status vdsmd" generated
> the message "Dependency failed for Virtual Desktop Service Manager/Job
> vdsmd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'". Didn't say what
> dependency though
>
> I have 3 hosts where this happening on 2 out of 3 hosts. For some odd
> reason, the one host isn't having any problems.
>
> In a Google search I found an instance where system clock timing was out of
> sync, and that messed it up. I checked all three hosts, as well as the RHEV
> manager and they all had chronyd running and the clocks appeared to be in
> sync.
>
> After a reboot the virtual interfaces usually initially come up, but go down
> again within a few minutes.
>
> Running journalctl -xe gives these three messages:
>
> "failed to start Virtual Desktop Server Manager network restoration"
>
> "Dependency failed for Virtual Desktop Server Manager"  (but it doesn't say
> which dependency failed"
>
> "Dependency failed for MOM instance configured for VDSM purposes"  (again,
> doesn't way which dependency)
>
> Any suggestions?

Can you share the output of:

systemctl status vdsmd
systemctl status mom
systemctl status libvirtd
journalctl -xe

Nir

>
> Paul
>
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