Bootstrap node installation fails with errors: ovnkube-node and ovnkube-control-plane pod not available
Issue
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The bootstrap installation fails with the errors:
ERROR Cluster operator network Degraded is True with RolloutHung: DaemonSet "/openshift-multus/multus" rollout is not making progress - pod multus-d7m67 is in CrashLoopBackOff State ERROR DaemonSet "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-node" rollout is not making progress - pod ovnkube-node-2cmqt is in CrashLoopBackOff State ERROR DaemonSet "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-node" rollout is not making progress - pod ovnkube-node-bsd6m is in CrashLoopBackOff State ERROR DaemonSet "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-node" rollout is not making progress - pod ovnkube-node-wlt8n is in CrashLoopBackOff State ERROR DaemonSet "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-node" rollout is not making progress - last change 2025-03-26T20:06:00Z INFO Cluster operator network ManagementStateDegraded is False with : INFO Cluster operator network Progressing is True with Deploying: DaemonSet "/openshift-network-operator/iptables-alerter" is waiting for other operators to become ready INFO DaemonSet "/openshift-multus/multus" is not available (awaiting 3 nodes) INFO DaemonSet "/openshift-multus/network-metrics-daemon" is waiting for other operators to become ready INFO DaemonSet "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-node" is not available (awaiting 3 nodes) INFO Deployment "/openshift-multus/multus-admission-controller" is waiting for other operators to become ready INFO Deployment "/openshift-ovn-kubernetes/ovnkube-control-plane" is not available (awaiting 2 nodes) ERROR Cluster operator network Available is False with Startup: The network is starting up ERROR Bootstrap failed to complete: timed out waiting for the condition ERROR Failed to wait for bootstrapping to complete. This error usually happens when there is a problem with control plane hosts that prevents the control plane operators from creating the control plane.
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The
hostPrefix
is incorrect in theinstall-config.yaml
:... networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 #<--- clusterNetwork CIDR and the `hostPrefix` are the same hostPrefix: 14 #<--- Here machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.10.10.0/24 networkType: OVNKubernetes serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 ...
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4
- Install
- Bootstrap
- OVN-Kubernetes
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