Failed to update VMs/Templates OVF data in Data Center

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Continuously getting following error messages in /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log file on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager:
013-11-13 07:11:04,748 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-41) Exception while trying to update or remove VMs/Templates ovf in Data Center test.: org.ovirt.engine.core.compat.CompatException: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.compat.backendcompat.Path.GetTempFileName(Path.java:23) [engine-compat.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ovf.OvfWriter.<init>(OvfWriter.java:43) [engine-utils.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ovf.OvfVmWriter.<init>(OvfVmWriter.java:26) [engine-utils.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ovf.OvfManager.ExportVm(OvfManager.java:23) [engine-utils.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater.generateVmMetadata(OvfDataUpdater.java:321) [engine-bll.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater.buildMetadataDictionaryForVm(OvfDataUpdater.java:335) [engine-bll.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater.populateVmsMetadataForOvfUpdate(OvfDataUpdater.java:246) [engine-bll.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater.updateOvfForVmsOfStoragePool(OvfDataUpdater.java:132) [engine-bll.jar:]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.OvfDataUpdater.ovfUpdate_timer(OvfDataUpdater.java:93) [engine-bll.jar:]
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor350.invoke(Unknown Source) [:1.7.0_25]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.timer.JobWrapper.execute(JobWrapper.java:60) [engine-scheduler.jar:]
    at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:213) [quartz-2.1.2.jar:]
    at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:557) [quartz-2.1.2.jar:]
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
    at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1879) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1923) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at org.ovirt.engine.core.compat.backendcompat.Path.GetTempFileName(Path.java:21) [engine-compat.jar:]
    ... 14 more

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEV) v3.2

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