Why are the errors "not a valid name for this device" showing in VDSM logs?
Issue
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In a RHHI setup, the following errors are observed in the vdsm log files, at
/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log, every few hours:2020-06-23 08:44:46,430+0200 ERROR (jsonrpc/0) [jsonrpc.JsonRpcServer] Internal server error (__init__:350) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yajsonrpc/__init__.py", line 345, in _handle_request res = method(**params) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/rpc/Bridge.py", line 194, in _dynamicMethod result = fn(*methodArgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/gluster/apiwrapper.py", line 84, in storageDevicesList return self._gluster.storageDevicesList() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/gluster/api.py", line 93, in wrapper rv = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/gluster/api.py", line 519, in storageDevicesList status = self.svdsmProxy.glusterStorageDevicesList() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/supervdsm.py", line 56, in __call__ return callMethod() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/supervdsm.py", line 54, in <lambda> **kwargs) File "<string>", line 2, in glusterStorageDevicesList File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 773, in _callmethod raise convert_to_error(kind, result) ValueError: gluster_thinpool_gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3 is not a valid name for this device -
They point to thin pool
gluster_thinpool_gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3as not having a valid name. However, checking the status of this thin pool , using for example anlvs -acommand, it's looks healthy:3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3 253:3 0 832.2G 0 part ├─gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3- gluster_thinpool_gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3_t meta 253:9 0 3G 0 lvm │ └─gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3-gluster_thinpool_gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3-tpool 253:11 0 826.2G 0 lvm │ ├─gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3-gluster_thinpool_gluster_vg_3600508b1001c0ccc07ddd1090e3147f4p3 -
Why are these messages seen? How to prevent them from occurring?
Environment
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure 1.x
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