VM failed to power off via the RHEV Admin Portal
Issue
- A VM was
hungand needed to be powered off, but when this was attempted via the RHEV Admin Portal it failed, as seen in the Event Log;
Failed to power off VM vm-a (Host: x.x.x.com User: admin@internal).
- The engine log showed;
ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.DestroyVDSCommand] (org.ovirt.thread.pool-7-thread-29) [6cf82d75] Command DestroyVDSCommand(HostName = <hostname>, HostId = db8f6903-568a-4663-9a73-5ec3d444aa85, vmId=7122b962-1c19-429e-a55a-b7d8e618015a, force=false, secondsToWait=0, gracefully=false, reason=) execution failed. Exception: VDSErrorException: VDSGenericException: VDSErrorException: Failed to DestroyVDS, error = Virtual machine destroy error, code = 42
...
ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (org.ovirt.thread.pool-7-thread-29) [6cf82d75] Correlation ID: 6cf82d75, Job ID: 37dc3210-c7fe-4834-b34d-53c5bbccde2e, Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: Failed to power off VM <vm-name> (Host: <hostname>, User: admin@internal).
- The vdsm logs on the host on which the VM was running showed;
Thread-2633538::DEBUG::2016-02-11 03:09:33,211::libvirtconnection::143::root::(wrapper) Unknown libvirterror: ecode: 38 edom: 0 level: 2 message: Failed to terminate process 23608 with SIGTERM: Device or resource busy
Thread-2633538::WARNING::2016-02-11 03:09:33,211::vm::5016::vm.Vm::(_destroyVmGraceful) vmId=`7122b962-1c19-429e-a55a-b7d8e618015a`::Failed to destroy VM '7122b962-1c19-429e-a55a-b7d8e618015a' gracefully
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 5007, in _destroyVmGraceful
File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 702, in f
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 111, in wrapper
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1043, in destroyFlags
libvirtError: Failed to terminate process 23608 with SIGTERM: Device or resource busy
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 host
- vdsm-4.16.32-1.el7
- libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3
Subscriber exclusive content
A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
