Bug 798186

Summary: engine setup: Failes when using seprate /usr partition
Product: [Retired] oVirt Reporter: W. de Heiden <wdh>
Component: ovirt-engine-installerAssignee: Moran Goldboim <mgoldboi>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: acathrow, iheim, mgoldboi, ykaul
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Description W. de Heiden 2012-02-28 09:20:36 UTC 
Running engine-setup fails when using a seperate /var partion (seperated from  /) In /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine-setup_xxxxxxx.log:

  2012-02-18 14:46:16::ERROR::engine-setup::614::root:: Traceback
  (most
recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 612, in _linkHttpParams
      os.link(target, link)
  OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link

  2012-02-18 14:46:16::ERROR::engine-setup::728::root:: Traceback
  (most
recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 712, in _editRootWar
      _linkHttpParams()
    File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 615, in _linkHttpParams
      raise Exception(output_messages.ERR_EXP_FAILED_ROOT_WAR)
  Exception: Could not copy ROOT.war configuration into Jboss profile

The installer tries to make a hard link to somewhere is /usr to /etc/ovirt-engine, which is not possible since /usr is on a separate
disk partition.

A workaround is to move /etc/overt-engine to
/usr/local/etc/ovirt-engine en create a symbolic link in /etc/
Comment 1 Ofer Schreiber 2012-05-08 07:58:21 UTC 
We do the hard link since JBoss doesn't support symlinks yet.
This can be solved by http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,3782
Comment 2 Itamar Heim 2012-12-17 07:26:33 UTC 
Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.