Description of problem: Setting oVirt Node as Conversion Host in ManageIQ, makes it unusable, because libraries installed by vmware-vix-disklib shadows system libraries. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): At my environment first occurence was at oVirt Node 4.3.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fresh oVirt Node 4.3.7 2. Setup this host as MIQ Conversion Hosts for VMware (what install vmware-vix-disklib) 3. Try to activate hosts or use misc system tools (yum, firewall-cmd) Actual results: Segmentation fault or undefined symbol errors. Node can not be activated. Expected results: Everything should work normally. Additional info: Problem is caused by installation and configuraion of VMware-vix-disklib-VERSION.x86_64.tar.gz package. After installation to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ is added file vmware-vix.conf with contents: # more /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vmware-vix.conf /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64 What poisons the LD_CACHE and makes node unusable: # ldconfig --print-cache | grep vmware | more libz.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libz.so.1 libz.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libz.so libxml2.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libxml2.so.2 libxml2.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libxml2.so libvmomi.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvmomi.so libvmacore.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvmacore.so libvixMntapi.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixMntapi.so.1 libvixMntapi.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixMntapi.so libvixDiskLibVim.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixDiskLibVim.so.6 libvixDiskLibVim.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixDiskLibVim.so libvixDiskLib.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixDiskLib.so.6 libvixDiskLib.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvixDiskLib.so libvim-types.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libvim-types.so libstdc++.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libstdc++.so libssoclient.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libssoclient.so libssl.so.1.0.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.2 libssl.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libssl.so libsqlite3.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 libsqlite3.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libsqlite3.so libgvmomi.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgvmomi.so libgthread-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0 libgthread-2.0.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so libgobject-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libglib-2.0.so libgcc_s.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libgcc_s.so libffi.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libffi.so.5 libffi.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libffi.so libexpat.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libexpat.so libdiskLibPlugin.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libdiskLibPlugin.so libcurl.so.4 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libcurl.so.4 libcurl.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libcurl.so libcrypto.so.1.0.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2 libcrypto.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libcrypto.so After removing /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib and refreshing /etc/ld.so.cache node works as expected.
Closing ma earlier bug 1777485 as caused by this.
Hi Szymon, I'm curious to know what procedure you follow to "Setup this host as MIQ Conversion Hosts for VMware (what install vmware-vix-disklib)". Could you please elaborate and/or point to the documentation you follow? Thanks.
We managed to get it working. Problem was more of documentation nature. We were installing Conversion Host in ManageIQ using information from https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_infrastructure_migration_solution/1.0/html-single/infrastructure_migration_solution_guide/index#Preparing_the_rhv_conversion_hosts then when we get stuck on disklib libraries visibility problems and found solution at VMware documentation. There we got: "create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vmware-vix.conf with the following content /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64 (if you are using 64 bit) /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib32 (if you are using 32 bit)" That was the main problem that brokes the oVirt node, because in vix-disklib package there are many duplicates of low level system libraries. After drilling down we narrowed solution to just linking only two libraries from vix-disklib package as is described at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_cloudforms/5.0-beta/html/installing_red_hat_cloudforms_on_vmware_vsphere/additional-configuration-vmware Finding a solution was harder, because of incompatibility between ManageIQ Ivanchuk-1 with virt-v2v in oVirt 4.3.5 an earlier (lack of redirection to separate log file output from --machine-readable). First version that worked was virt-v2v in oVirt 4.3.7. This is a good material for knowledge database :-) Closing as "Works form me". Thanks all for your attention.