Bug 822930

Summary: DNS info is removed after register to rhevm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: shine <shcao>
Component: ovirt-nodeAssignee: Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.3CC: acathrow, bsarathy, cshao, dougsland, fdeutsch, gouyang, jboggs, leiwang, mburns, moli, ovirt-maint, sgordon, syeghiay, yuachen
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: ovirt-node-2.3.0-8.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 824621 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-07-19 14:13:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Description shine 2012-05-18 14:25:51 UTC
Created attachment 585425 [details]
VMMigError

Description of problem:
VM migration failed with empty resolv.conf after registered to RHEVM

Version-Release number of selected component:
rhev-hypervisor6-6.3-20120516.0.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Not Regression

Priority: High

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rhev-hypervisor6-6.3-20120516.0.el6 to the machine
2. register it to rhevm
3. find the /etc/resolv.conf was empty
4. Connect to NFS storage, and create VMs on the RHEVH host


Actual results:
resolv.conf is empty, which results in DNS error and vm migration failure.[migerrorvdsm.log]
But the resolv.conf wouldn't be empty, after rebooted the rhevh. Then vm migration still failed.
If the hostnames of srchost and desthost are different, I modified the host-name setted on rhevm as the hostname of RHEVH, the migration is successful.[pic successfulmig.png]


Expected results:
vm migration should be successful.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Guohua Ouyang 2012-05-21 10:39:09 UTC
the root cause is that dns is removed after register to rhevm, to reproduce this can specify the dns on tui manually and then register to rhevm.

set priority to urgent to highlight this issue.

Mburns, 
Please help assign the bug to vdsm component it it's not owned by ovirt-node.

Comment 4 Mike Burns 2012-05-21 21:06:58 UTC
I looking into this some more and it's not exactly vdsm causing the problem (though that mght be where the fix is).

Sequence:

configure network
set different dns
apply changes
drop to shell
check /etc/resolv.conf -- setup correctly
service network restart
check /etc/resolv.conf -- empty


The rhevm registration does a service network restart which might be where we need to fix this

Comment 5 Fabian Deutsch 2012-05-22 08:43:51 UTC
Mike,

I could not reproduce the problem by following your steps.
In my tests /etc/resolv.conf was never empty. I configured the NIC with DNS and used the IP of a non-existent DNS server.

Comment 6 Fabian Deutsch 2012-05-22 09:56:18 UTC
Okay, I finally could reproduce this.

Comment 7 Fabian Deutsch 2012-05-22 13:38:29 UTC
The problem is the following:

The network is configured using DHCP, dhclient creates a copy of the original (a) /etc/resolv.conf in e.g. (b) /var/lib/dhclient/resolv.conf.predhclient.breth0 .
When dhclient is shut down, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with (b), thus, any changes that happened during the lifetime of dhclient to /etc/resolv.conf are lost.

If /etc/resolv.conf was empty before dhclient was started, and a DNS server is manually given in the TUI while dhclient is running, then - when a network restart happens - /etc/resolv.conf will be empty again and we've got this problem.

AFAIU the same applies to the ntp configuration.

Comment 11 Fabian Deutsch 2012-05-22 16:02:15 UTC
The following patch should fix this problem:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/4674

Comment 14 yuanquan chen 2012-05-28 10:28:25 UTC
Verified with rhevh-6.3-20120523.1. the DNS won't be removed after restarting network service. It also successes to register to rhev-m and do vm migration.

Comment 15 Stephen Gordon 2012-06-14 15:33:15 UTC
The tech note for this was covered in a related bug, so no technical note required for this one.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-19 14:13:06 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0741.html