[ovirt-users] unlock_entity.sh

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Johan Vermeulen <jameslast29 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicolas,
>
> thank you very much for the very swift reply.
> I was able to remove the locked vm's with that command.
>
> Greetings, J.
>
> 2017-10-24 12:29 GMT+02:00 <nicolas at devels.es>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not sure if this is the only one way, but this works for us (run as root):
>>
>>   PGPASSWORD=... /usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/dbutils/unlock_entity.sh -t
>> all -u engine
>>
>> Note that unlock_entity.sh has many flags and this is just an example.
>>
>> You can find the PGPASSWORD value in the
>> /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/10-setup-database.conf file.
>>
>> As to where can you find the disk ID, I usually use either the Python-SDK
>> or from within the admin UI, you can go to the Disks tab and find the disk
>> you're looking for. Simply click on it and you'll see the ID string easily.

Also you might want to note that in 4.2 you'll not need to pass the
credentials anymore:

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/82615

>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nicolás
>>
>> El 2017-10-24 11:18, Johan Vermeulen escribió:
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> first of all, I hope this question is not too trivial or hasn't been
>>> asked lately
>>> ( but i scrolled down the mailing list and didn't find anything
>>> similar, so...)
>>>
>>> I have a lot of trouble with locked disks when trying to remove vm's.
>>> I know there's the unlock_entity script but cannot get it to work.
>>>
>>> Where can I find a copy-paste-able uuid nr of the disk?
>>> It prompts me for a database password. Is this something I should have
>>> created when setting up Ovirt?
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me an example of a complete unlock entity command?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> greetings, J.
>>>
>>>
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