hosted-engine --deploy fails with message as: Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': [Errno 1] Unknown host

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Issue

  • When using hosted-engine --deploy I get the following error a the end of configuration setup:
    Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': [Errno 1] Unknown host
  • Below traceback is seen in the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup.log :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/otopi/context.py", line 132, in _executeMethod
    method['method']()
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/gr-he-common/network/bridge.py", line 321, in _get_hostname_from_bridge_if
    hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist = socket.gethostbyaddr(ipaddr)
herror: [Errno 1] Unknown host

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.x

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