From 8d44797e651c37739399cf61457b6be494489cf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:22:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add troubleshooting section
---
tsa/howto/ganeti.mdwn | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tsa/howto/ganeti.mdwn b/tsa/howto/ganeti.mdwn
index b083cf83..143ed9d0 100644
--- a/tsa/howto/ganeti.mdwn
+++ b/tsa/howto/ganeti.mdwn
@@ -338,13 +338,6 @@ Import procedure:
gnt-instance console $INSTANCE
- 8. on this particular machine, boot hangs for a while on this console
- message:
-
- [ *** ] A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid-484b5...26s / 1min 30s)
-
- but strangely the machine eventually boots and `/etc/fstab` looks okay.
-
9. IP address change on new instance:
edit `/etc/network/interfaces` by hand and add IPv4 and IPv6
@@ -401,7 +394,22 @@ Import procedure:
17. decomission old instance ([[retire-a-host]])
-References:
+### Troubleshooting
+
+ * if boot takes a long time and you see a message like this on the console:
+
+ [ *** ] A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid-484b5...26s / 1min 30s)
+
+ ... which is generally followed by:
+
+ [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-…6f4b5-f334-4173-8491-9353d4f94e04.
+ [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap.
+
+ it means the swap device UUID wasn't setup properly, and does not
+ match the one provided in `/etc/fstab`. That is probably because
+ you missed the `mkswap -U` step documented above.
+
+### References
* [Upstream docs](http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti/2.15/html/admin.html#import-of-foreign-instances) have the canonical incantation:
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