[ovirt-users] oVirt installs 3.6 repos for 4.0 compat cluster

[James]

Yep,

This was 100% my fault here sorry. Turns out we add the repo as part of
our bootstrap process and I just missed the line.

Sorry for the confusion!

Cheers,
James

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, at 06:24 PM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:00 AM, James <james at jloh.co> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm trying to servers to a new oVirt 4.0 cluster. I've upgraded the
> > engine (not hosted, standalone) to version 4.0.6.3 and run engine-setup
> > and everything seemed to go fine.
> >
> > When reinstalling oVirt on a host after removing it from the 3.6 compat
> > cluster into a 4.0 compat cluster causes issues when reinstalling and
> > setting up the management network for some reason. I haven't been able
> > to track this issue down fully yet.
> >
> > Whats weird is that even when a fresh new host is installed and added to
> > the grid for some reason oVirt installs the repos for oVirt 3.6 on the
> 
> AFAIK nothing in oVirt installs repos. It's up to the admin to add the
> correct repos, usually by installing a suitable ovirt-release*.rpm
> package.
> 
> Please check all of /etc/yum.repos.d before you (re)install such a host.
> 
> > host. I'm sure this is done by oVirt itself since they aren't there
> > before I install the host and we don't manage these outside of that. It
> 
> Can you please verify that somehow? E.g. 'yum search vdsm', 'yum info
> vdsm'?
> 
> Also, which OS are you using?
> 
> > also just stalls at "Activating" the host and I can't do anything with
> > them after that.
> >
> > Shouldn't it be installing version 4.0 for this cluster? I've triple
> > checked its set to version 4.0 compatibility and the data center its in
> > is also set to this level.
> >
> > Unsure what logs I can provide but any help would be greatly
> > appreciated!
> 
> Generally speaking, you should check:
> On engine machine - /var/log/ovirt-engine/* ,
> /var/log/ovirt-engine/host-deploy/*
> On host - /var/log/vdsm/* , during install also /tmp/*
> 
> But first check your repos.
> 
> Best,
> -- 
> Didi