[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-13 Thread David Johnson
The last thing I need is the complication of having the engine hosted on the cluster. It's way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot that way. On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 11:32 PM Sketch wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Guillaume Pavese wrote: > > > Not sure about recovering your cluster on a 4.5

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-13 Thread Sketch
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Guillaume Pavese wrote: Not sure about recovering your cluster on a 4.5 install with a 4.4 backup. I would also like to know if that is possible. It's definitely possible. I had an issue with my 4.4->4.5 upgrade (always make a backup first) and wanted to switch my

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-13 Thread Guillaume Pavese
Not sure about recovering your cluster on a 4.5 install with a 4.4 backup. I would also like to know if that is possible. As a separate note, if you really need to install 4.4 instead of 4.5; I managed to install a 4.4.10 hosted engine recently by - extracting the ova from the ovirt-appliance rpm

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-13 Thread David Johnson
It looks like I've run into this now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077794 https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/SBCWNXLFLJBKTA3TFJARE7QCYZQ6QMMH/ It looks like a permanent fix was put in place in 4.5. Should I consider just bumping up to 4.5 instead of

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-13 Thread David Johnson
This came in just as the engine came up. The final pieces of the puzzle were: The database@server notation expressed in the logs is cool, but is not how it is expressed to actually connect. That threw up a red herring. I had to create all of the postgres users Postgres ident authentication

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread Sketch
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022, David Johnson wrote: There's a version mismatch between the libpq and the postgresql verson: [root@ovirt1 ~]# dnf info --installed libpq* postgresql* Installed Packages Name         : libpq5 Version      : 14.3 Release      : 42PGDG.rhel8 Architecture : x86_64 Size        

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
On reviewing the log from engine-setup: 2022-06-12 23:27:29,507-0400 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:127 Stage setup METHOD otopi.plugins.ovirt_engine_common.ovirt_engine.db.connection.Plugin._setup 2022-06-12 23:27:29,510-0400 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_engine_setup.engine_common.database

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
Update: I scanned the centos libraries, and the lowest version of postgres that had consistent package versions was 13. There was no libpq at the version 12 level in the centos RPM library. I performed the manual installation process for the postgresql database at the *Initializing the

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
Progress ... there's something weird going on with the centos postgres package(s). After a bunch of removes and installs of postgres the engine install succeeded and the engine configuration succeeded. Now it looks like not all of the postgresql libraries were loaded. [root@ovirt1 ~]#

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
Other issues when running dnf install ovirt-engine Failed to get unit file state for openvswitch.service: No such file or directory Failed to get unit file state for ovn-northd.service: No such file or directory Failed to get unit file state for ovirt-provider-ovn.service: No such file or

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
Following https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/CKIRPIOU4BEQGOZ3QZBHK5I7O3NRZVIM/ The /etc/init.d/postgresql directory should be created by dnf install ovirt-engine. I ran dnf reinstall ovirt-engine and the directory is still missing. > >>

[ovirt-users] Re: Install Ovirt 4.4.10 to standalone system from iso fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Johnson
Installing on a pristine Centos 8, I had to manually install the correct version of ansible and postgres 12, then change the service name from postgresql-12 to postgresql. There are scripts looking for init.d/postgresql. Since Centos 8 implements SystemCtl , there should be no init.d's (and there