<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Round two, the SOS report at 8MB was too large for the list. This time uploading the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup log.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">****************************</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></div>Can you please elaborate about the failure you see here and how are you trying to manually partition the host?</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sure, I will start from the beginning.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- Using: ovirt-node-ng-installer-ovirt-<wbr>4.<a href="tel:(201)%20705-2604" value="+12017052604" target="_blank">1-2017052604</a>.iso</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- During installation I setup one of the two interfaces and check the box to automatically use the connection.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">- I'm currently providing a host name of <a href="http://node-1.test.net/" target="_blank">node-1.test.net</a> until I have a successful process.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">- I configure date and time for my timezone and to use an internal NTP server.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- On Installation Destination, I pick my 128GB USB3.0 SanDisk flash drive, check the box that I would like to make additional space, and click done. In the reclaim disk space window, I click delete all, and then reclaim space. I go back into the Installation Destination, select that I will configure partitioning, and click done. The Manual Partitioning window opens, I use the option to automatically create mount points. At this point, /boot is 1024MB, /var is 15GB, / is 88.11 GB, and swap is 11.57GB. I then change / to 23.11 GB, update settings, change /var to 80GB, update settings again, and click done. I accept the changes and begin installation.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">I tried these changes based on this article: <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Deploying_Self-Hosted_Engine/" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/<wbr>documentation/self-hosted/<wbr>chap-Deploying_Self-Hosted_<wbr>Engine/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">The article does say that you can specify a different directory than /var/tmp, but I don't recall seeing that option.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">After some time, I get the following error:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">There was an error running the kickstart script at line 7. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted. The details of this error are:</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">[INFO] Trying to create a manageable base from '/'</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">[ERROR] LVM Thin Provisioning partitioning scheme is required. For autoinstall via Kickstart with LVM Thin Provisioning check options --thinpool and --grow. Please consult documentation for details.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Traceback (most recent call last):</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.<wbr>py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib64/<a href="http://python2.7runpy.py/" target="_blank">python2.7runpy.py</a>"<wbr>, line 72, in _run_code exec code in run_globals</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/__main__.py"<wbr>, line 51, in <module> CliApplication()</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/__init__.py"<wbr>, line 82, in CliApplication()</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/hooks.py", line 120, in emit cb(self.context, *args)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/plugins/<wbr>core.py", line 169, in post_argparse layout.initialize(args.source, args.init_nvr)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/plugins/<wbr>core.py", line 216, in initialize self.app.imgbase.init_layout_<wbr>from(source, init_nvr)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/imgbase.py", line 271, in init_layout_from self.init_tags_on(existing_lv)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/imgbase.py", line 243, in init_tags_on pool = lv.thinpool()</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/imgbased/lvm.py", line 250, in thinpool raise MissingLvmThinPool() imgbased.lvm.<wbr>MissingLvmThinPool</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">At this point, the only option is to exit the installer.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">****************************</font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Being this a new install, please use 4.1. oVirt 4.0 is not supported anymore.</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Not a problem.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">****************************</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-im"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Can you please provide hosted engine setup logs or better a full sos report? (sosreport -a)</div><div><br></div></span><div>Again, the process I'm following:</div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">- Using: ovirt-node-ng-installer-ovirt-<wbr>4.<a href="tel:(201)%20705-2604" value="+12017052604" target="_blank">1-2017052604</a>.iso</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">- During installation I setup one of the two interfaces and check the box to automatically use the connection.</span></div><div><font color="#000000">- I'm currently providing a host name of <a href="http://node-1.test.net/" target="_blank">node-1.test.net</a> until I have a successful process.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">- I configure date and time for my timezone and to use an internal NTP server.</font></div></div><span class="gmail-m_3901339238930403980gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- On Installation Destination, I pick my 128GB USB3.0 SanDisk flash drive, check the box that I would like to make additional space, and click done. In the reclaim disk space window, I click delete all, and then reclaim space.<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Begin Installation and set a root password.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Perform a yum update - no packages marked for update (as expected)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Use vi to update /etc/hosts with a reference for <a href="http://node-1.test.net/" target="_blank">node-1.test.net</a> and <a href="http://engine.test.net/" target="_blank">engine.test.net</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- First attempt at hosted-engine from web-UI</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Setup downloads and installs ovirt-engine-<wbr>appliance-4.1-20170523.1.el7.<wbr>centos.noarch.rpm</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><div>*Failed to execute stage 'Environment setup': Failed to reconfigure libvirt for VDSM</div><div><span class="gmail-m_3901339238930403980gmail-pficon gmail-m_3901339238930403980gmail-pficon-error-circle-o"></span>*Hosted Engine deployment failed</div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Attached ovirt-hosted-engine-setup log file.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At this point, I would run </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ovirt-hosted-engine-<wbr>cleanup and I would get further along in the install process. However, because this is a fresh install, I'm going to leave things here for now so you can review the SOS.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">****************************</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">I'd like to understand the issues you faced before suggesting to restart from scratch.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Too late... I did two re-installs to get a more accurate account of my install process for above.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">****************************</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you for your help!</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbonazzo@redhat.com" target="_blank">sbonazzo@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Brendan Hartzell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrrex4@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrrex4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">oVirt users list,<div><br></div><div>Long story short, I've been spending weeks on this project for my home lab with no success.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to successfully install two nodes that host a highly available engine with an iSCSI storage back-end.</div><div><br></div><div>I have read through most, if not all, of the guides on <a href="http://ovirt.org" target="_blank">ovirt.org</a> with no substantial help.</div><div><br></div><div>Successfully, I have done the following:</div><div>Install oVirt Engine on a bare metal system, added a node, and started exploring - not desired.</div><div>Install oVirt Node 4.0.6 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.</div><div>Install oVirt Node 4.1.2 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Can you please elaborate about the failure you see here and how are you trying to manually partition the host?</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>My process after installing a Node:</div><div>Run a yum update - just to be sure, but I am using latest iso images from downloads section.</div><div>Edit /etc/hosts for local name resolution - the goal is to host DNS as a virtual machine, eventually.</div><div>On 4.1 if I install ovirt-engine-appliance from yum, it does simplify one step in the hosted engine setup. If I do this on 4.0 it discards the image and uses the default.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Being this a new install, please use 4.1. oVirt 4.0 is not supported anymore.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>On 4.1 the hosted engine setup fails immediately unless I run the hosted engine cleanup from the shell.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Can you please provide hosted engine setup logs or better a full sos report? (sosreport -a)</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> If I do this, I can typically get to the point of installing.</div><div><br></div><div>When I do get to the installation phase, I get to a point just after extracting the OVA that I get a message on the shell saying something about the watchdog running the whole time and then the node reboots.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I found one email thread that sounded like my issue and suggested the following commands:</div><div><div>vdsm-tool configure --force</div><div>systemctl restart libvirtd</div><div>systemctl restart vdsmd</div></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, these commands did not help my situation like the other individual.</div><div><br></div><div>What log file would everyone like to see first? Given that I still consider myself relatively new to Linux, please identify the path for the log file requested.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>See above</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Also, because I plan on performing a clean install for this thread using my process from above (I'm not expecting my outcome to be any different), are there any tips and tricks that might result in a success?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I'd like to understand the issues you faced before suggesting to restart from scratch.</div><div>Adding some people who may help as well.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Thank you for any and all help,</div><div>Brendan</div></div>
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