Hello, Many thanks again for taking the time to try and help me recover this machine (even though it would have been far easier to simply redeploy it...)
> > > > > Sadly enough, it seems that --clean-metadata requires an active agent. > > E.g. > > $ hosted-engine --clean-metadata > > The hosted engine configuration has not been retrieved from shared > storage. Please ensure that ovirt-ha-agent > > is running and the storage server is reachable. > > Did you try to search the net/list archives? > Yes. All of them seem to repeat the same clean-metadata command (which fails). > > > > > Can I manually delete the metadata state files? > > Yes, see e.g.: > > https://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-April/072676.html > > As an alternative to the 'find' command there, you can also find the IDs > with: > > $ grep metadata /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf > > Best regards, > -- > Didi > Yippie! Success (At least it seems that way...) Following https://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-April/072676.html, I stopped the broker and agent services, archived the existing hosted metadata files, created an empty 1GB metadata file using dd, (dd if=/dev/zero of=/run/vdsm/storage/<uuid>/<uuid> bs=1M count=1024), making double sure permissions (0660 / 0644), owner (vdsm:kvm) and SELinux labels (restorecon, just incase) stay the same. Let everything settle down. Restarted the services.... ... and everything is up again :) I plan to let the engine run overnight with zero VMs (making sure all backups are fully up-to-date). Once done, I'll return to normal (until I replace this setup with a normal multi-node setup). Many thanks again! - Gilboa
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