Created attachment 1391882 [details] select_force.png Description of problem: Didn't create VG on the dirty iSCSI (or FC) storage while deploying HE based otopi. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cockpit-system-157-1.el7.noarch cockpit-dashboard-157-1.el7.x86_64 cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.11.11-0.1.el7ev.noarch cockpit-bridge-157-1.el7.x86_64 cockpit-storaged-157-1.el7.noarch cockpit-157-1.el7.x86_64 cockpit-ws-157-1.el7.x86_64 ovirt-hosted-engine-ha-2.2.4-1.el7ev.noarch ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.2.9-1.el7ev.noarch rhvm-appliance-4.2-20180202.0.el7.noarch rhvh-4.2.1.2-0.20180205.0+1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Clean install latest RHVH4.2.1 with ks(rhvh-4.2.1.2-0.20180205.0+1) 2. Deploy HE with dirty iSCSI or FC storage via cockpit based otopi, select "Force" when ask WARNING: This will destroy existing data on the device. (Force, Abort)[Abort]? Force Actual results: 1. After step2, deploy HE failed. From the cockpit or CLI: [ ERROR ] Error creating Volume Group: Command LVMVolumeGroup.create with args {'devlist': [u'36005076300810b3e0000000000000027'], 'force': True, 'name': 'b49529ac-cc87-4ab2-b4ab-eff5c4d6b11f'} failed: (code=601, message=Failed to initialize physical device: ("[u'/dev/mapper/36005076300810b3e0000000000000027']",)) [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': Command LVMVolumeGroup.create with args {'devlist': [u'36005076300810b3e0000000000000027'], 'force': True, 'name': 'b49529ac-cc87-4ab2-b4ab-eff5c4d6b11f'} failed: (code=601, message=Failed to initialize physical device: ("[u'/dev/mapper/36005076300810b3e0000000000000027']",)) [ INFO ] Yum Performing yum transaction rollback [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20180206155931.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: please check the logs for the issue, fix accordingly or re-deploy from scratch. Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20180206155619-e5w4qb.log Expected results: 1. After step2, deploy HE successfully with dirty iSCSI or FC storage Additional info: Deploy process with iSCSI or FC storage with CLI also meet the issue: http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/553007 http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/553008
Created attachment 1391885 [details] create_vg_error
This is a well know pvcreate issue, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215427#c4 force option is not working when the LUN contains a partition table. Workaround: manually destroy the partition table with 'dd if=/dev/zero ...' as for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343043 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1527077 ***