Bug 1032228

This seems to be some kind of race.

It is not 100% reproducable.

Hi, I tried to reproduce this on real hardware, with this iso:
http://fedorapeople.org/~fabiand/node/3.0.2/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.2-1.0.0.vdsm.fc19.iso

mounted via IPMI, selected keyboard de_nodeadkeys, installed flawless.

So I can't reproduce this, I think you might need more info from the system
where the installation failed, and try to reproduce it with exactly the same
setup.

HTH

(In reply to Sven Kieske from comment #2)
> Hi, I tried to reproduce this on real hardware, with this iso:
> http://fedorapeople.org/~fabiand/node/3.0.2/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.2-1.0.0.vdsm.
> fc19.iso
> 
> mounted via IPMI, selected keyboard de_nodeadkeys, installed flawless.
> 
> So I can't reproduce this, I think you might need more info from the system
> where the installation failed, and try to reproduce it with exactly the same
> setup.
> 
> HTH

Thanks Sven.

I am installing the ISO as virtual machine and executed the following steps:

On a fresh install
- In grub, select install, wait for installer come up
- hit enter to select install, (next screen *do not* press enter) hit tab, right, right, hit enter (to continue)

I have reproduced this a few times, with the above steps. However, looks like I am the only one at moment.

Maybe this just occurs with a special lbvirt/kvm combination(assuming you use those)?

(In reply to Sven Kieske from comment #4)
> Maybe this just occurs with a special lbvirt/kvm combination(assuming you
> use those)?

I could reproduce it using a real hardware. 

It goes to:
Press ENTER to logout...
or enter 's' to drop to shell

I cannot reproduce it using ovirt-node-installer --debug.

Douglas,

as you are currently the only one who can reproduce it, could you write out each keypress you do? :)

Hey Fabian,

(In reply to Fabian Deutsch from comment #6)
> Douglas,
> 
> as you are currently the only one who can reproduce it, could you write out
> each keypress you do? :)

On a fresh install (not often reproduced) 
- In grub, select install, wait for installer come up
- hit enter to select install, (next screen *do not* press enter) hit tab, right, right, hit enter (to continue)

Here a video:
http://people.redhat.com/dlandgra/bz1032228/node-failed-install.mpg

I had the same issue today trying to reinstall the node image from pxe. After failing to reinstall, I just wiped the disk and did an install that didn't give this error.

So definately more than one person having this issue ;-)

(In reply to Netbulae from comment #8)
> I had the same issue today trying to reinstall the node image from pxe.
> After failing to reinstall, I just wiped the disk and did an install that
> didn't give this error.
> 
> So definately more than one person having this issue ;-)

:)

Could you please help debugging the issue and follow these instructions

http://www.ovirt.org/Node_Troubleshooting#Debug_Mode

and attach the log files to this bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032228

Created attachment 831620 [details]
I retreived /var/logs before wiping the disk, here you go

The problem description in the 'original post" in the mailing list [1] slightly differs to the one in this BZ, hence I am unsure if we are hunting two different problems. Please let me know if preferred to move this to a separate bug report.  

I am however experiencing exactly the same behaviour as in the original post.

<snip>

At the 'Keyboard layout selection' screen I press enter to select the default 'US English' option.
After a few seconds delay I then get this error screen:

An exception occurred
'other'
<close>

After pressing close I'm then back at the 'Keyboard layout selection' screen.
If I then press enter on 'US international' then tab down to the option to continue I can make my way to the screen where I have to enter the password for the admin user.  After continuing from there I immediately get an error on the install progress screen - at the 40% point.
The error reads:

Exception:
Value Error ('invalid literal for int() with base10: ''",)
<reboot>

</snip>   

Attached you find the whole /var/log directory from an install attempt with debug set.

ISO Used: ovirt-node-iso-3.0.3-1.1.vdsm.fc19.iso

[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018323.html

Created attachment 831957 [details]
/var/log directory

Log files from a failed node install attempt with debug enabled.

Probably irrelevant but I instead choose Swedish as keyboard layout. Tried also to leave the keyboard layout as default but that made no difference.

Furthermore I have tired and failed to install the node on two different physical machines, both dell laptops.

Hey,

mh - it seems that the debug log is written to /tmp/ovirt-node.debug.log.

Could either of you please attach /tmp/ovirt-node.debug.log too?

Created attachment 832255 [details]
New set of logfiles now with /tmp/ovirt.log included

(In reply to Jonas Israelsson from comment #15)
> Created attachment 832255 [details]
> New set of logfiles now with /tmp/ovirt.log included

Thanks.

could you please post the output of

$ sfdisk -s -l <device you selected on the storage page>

125034840

Disk /dev/sda: 15566 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

This is a SSD Disk..

FYI, With the latest test-day release announced here http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/node-devel/2014-January/000589.html I have been able to install several machines that I previously could not due to this bug.

Thanks for that feedback Jonas!

I just tried this node iso and it works here too. Thanks!

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Re-targeting all non-blocker bugs still open on 3.4.0 to 3.4.1.

Based on comment 20 and comment 18, can we close the bug?

(In reply to Doron Fediuck from comment #22)
> Based on comment 20 and comment 18, can we close the bug?

Yes, worked for me too.

Closing per comment 23.