[ovirt-users] unable to set group on volume

knarra knarra at redhat.com
Thu May 11 13:27:16 UTC 2017


On 05/11/2017 06:50 PM, Joel Diaz wrote:
>
> Hi Kasturi,
>
> Yes the ‘/var/lib/glusterd/virt’ was missing from my system.
>
> I’m running ovirt on a RHEL - 7 - 3.1611.el7.centos on a physical machine.
>
> The mistake is due to inexperience on my part. I stated earlier that I 
> completely removed glusterfs and reinstalled it in order to recreate 
> the ‘/var/lib/glusterd/virt’. The way I was uninstalling and 
> reinstalling gluster must have been incorrect.
>
> I ran ‘rpm -qa |grep gluster’ to get a list of the gluster components 
> installed. I then proceeded to remove each one on the list. Then I ran 
> a ‘yum install glusterfs* vdsm-gluster’ since I’m not sure which rpm 
> provides the ‘/var/lib/glusterd/virt’ file.  I’m not sure if this 
> installs too many components but after that, 
> the ‘/var/lib/glusterd/virt’ was present on my the system. I was able 
> to proceed normally after that.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to engage in my question,
>
> Joel
>
>
Good to know that it works :-)
> On May 11, 2017 2:20 AM, "knarra" <knarra at redhat.com 
> <mailto:knarra at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/10/2017 10:47 PM, Joel Diaz wrote:
>>     I though I would try something different so I removed the key
>>     group and value virt when creating the volumes. I was able to
>>     create the volumes. I stopped the data volume. I then tried to
>>     set the volume group by issuing a "gluster volume data group virt"
>>
>>     Still get "unable to open file '/var/lib/gluster/Virt'. Error: No
>>     such file or directory.
>>
>>     I don't know if I should continue with the setup until I can set
>>     this value.
>>
>>     Please let me know if I can provide some logs to identify the issue.
>>
>>     Thanks for your help,
>>
>>     Joel
>>
>>     On May 10, 2017 6:57 AM, "Joel Diaz" <mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>         The file is empty. I created the file by issuing a "touch
>>         /var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt"
>>
>>         The first time I attempted to set the group volume, the error
>>         was that the file was missing. I read a bug report that
>>         advised to remove and reinstall the gluster package in order
>>         to properly recreate the file. Since that did not work, I
>>         created it manually.
>>
>>         Thank you,
>>
>>         Joel
>>
>     Hi Joel,
>
>         Do you have this file present on the system ? This file will
>     be present when glusterfs is installed. I would like to first
>     understand how is it missing on your system? The error is because
>     i see that you do not have the file present there. Can you please
>     paste output of "ls -l /var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt" ?
>
>
>     Thanks
>     kasturi
>>
>>
>>         On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:12 AM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com
>>         <mailto:knarra at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             On 05/10/2017 06:37 AM, Joel Diaz wrote:
>>>             Hello ovirt users,
>>>
>>>             First off all, thanks for your work. I've been using the
>>>             software for a few months and the experience has been great.
>>>
>>>             I'm having a hard time trying to set the group on a
>>>             glusterfs volume
>>>
>>>             PLAY [master]
>>>             ******************************************************************
>>>
>>>             TASK [Sets options for volume]
>>>             *************************************************
>>>             failed: [192.168.170.141] (item={u'key': u'group',
>>>             u'value': u'virt'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"key":
>>>             "group", "value": "virt"}, "msg":
>>>             "'/var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt' file format not valid.\n"}
>>             From this error it looks like the virt file format is not
>>             valid? Can you please paste the contents of this file?
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'storage.owner-uid', u'value': u'36'})
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'storage.owner-gid', u'value': u'36'})
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'network.ping-timeout', u'value': u'30'})
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'performance.strict-o-direct', u'value': u'on'})
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'network.remote-dio', u'value': u'off'})
>>>             changed: [192.168.170.141] => (item={u'key':
>>>             u'cluster.granular-entry-heal', u'value': u'enable'})
>>>                     to retry, use: --limit
>>>             @/tmp/tmpdTWQ8B/gluster-volume-set.retry
>>>
>>>             PLAY RECAP
>>>             *********************************************************************
>>>             192.168.170.141  : ok=0    changed=0  unreachable=0  
>>>              failed=1
>>>
>>>             I've tried to remove remove glusterfs, wiping the
>>>             glusterfs configurations and reinstalling the service.
>>>
>>>             Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>             Thank you,
>>>
>>>             Joel
>>>
>>>
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