[ovirt-users] Host install common error

[Martin Perina]

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:33:15 PM EDT Christopher Hunt wrote:
> > In my experience, the oVirt repository is NOT added by oVirt-Engine
> > itself.  I always add the repo after installing the base OS
> >
> > -Chris
> >
>
> Yeah when I setup a host for testing I always do:
>
> 1. Get minimal install of centos 7.
> 2. yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-releaseXX.rpm
> where XX is the version I am working with.
> 3. Make sure sshd is up and running and my engine can connect.
> 4. Install the host through the UI.
>
> Haven't had that sequence fail in years.
>

​Yes, this is right, you need to add oVirt repositories by installing
relevant ovirt-release package to the host manually before you try to add a
host in webadmin. The only exception is NGN node, which already contains
all required packages by default in installation image.
​


>
> > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 06/08/2017 04:52 PM, FERNANDO FREDIANI wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello folks.
> > >
> > > One of the most (if not the more) annoying problems of oVirt is the
> known
> > > message "... installation failed. Command returned failure code 1
> during
> > > SSH session ..." which happens quiet often in several situations.
> > >
> > > Scrubbing installation logs it seems that most stuff goes well, but
> then
> > > it stops in a message saying: "ERROR otopi.context
> > > context._executeMethod:151 Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation':
> > > Cannot locate vdsm package, possible cause is incorrect channels" -
> > > followed by another message: "DEBUG otopi.context
> > > context.dumpEnvironment:770 ENV BASE/exceptionInfo=list:'[(<type
> > > 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>, RuntimeError('Cannot locate vdsm package,
> > > possible cause is incorrect channels',), <traceback object at
> > > 0x3131ef0>)]'"
> > >
> > > I am not sure why would it complain about the repositories as this is a
> > > Minimal CentOS 7 Install and the oVirt repository is added by
> oVirt-Engine
> > > itself so I assumed it added the most appropriate to its own version.
> > > I even tried to copy over the same repositories used on the Hosts that
> are
> > > installed and working fine but that message shows up again on the
> Install
> > > retries.
> > >
> > > I am not sure what you mean by Minimal Centos 7 install. do you mean
> it's
> > > hosted engine install?
> > > can you please check if you can see the package by running yum search
> > > vdsm?
> > > Also, looking at the complete log would be good
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any other hints where to look ?
> > >
> > > For reference my engine version running is: 4.1.1.6-1.el7.centos.
> > >
> > > Fernando
> > >
> > >
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