[elbe-devel] elbe v12.3 issue: unable to connect to the SOAP server

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:55 PM Torben Hohn <torben.hohn at linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:38:30PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:07 AM Yegor Yefremov
> > <yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:25 PM Torben Hohn <torben.hohn at linutronix.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> > > > > I have created a new initvm from git master. So both host elbe and
> > > > > initvm elbe show version v12.3.
> > > > >
> > > > > Netstat shows that someone is listening on 7587:
> > > > >
> > > > > netstat -apn | grep 7587
> > > > > (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
> > > > >  will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
> > > > > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7587            0.0.0.0:*
> > > > > LISTEN      -
> > > > >
> > > > > But issuing a submit produces the following output:
> > > > >
> > > > >  ./elbe initvm --skip-build-bin  submit --directory=initvm my-system.xml
> > > > > elbe control create_project failed.
> > > > > Failed to connect to Soap server localhost:7587
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Check, wether the Soap Server is running inside the initvm
> > > > > try 'elbe initvm attach'
> > > > >
> > > > > Giving up
> > > > >
> > > > > Any idea?
> > > >
> > > > Moin Yegor,
> > > >
> > > > attach into the initvm using ./elbe initvm attach
> > > >
> > > > then login: root/root
> > > >
> > > > the output from "systemctl status elbe-daemon"
> > > > and "journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=elbe-daemon.service"
> > > >
> > > > should be helpful.
> > >
> > > Mar 12 08:35:50 elbe-daemon systemd[665]: elbe-daemon.service: Failed
> > > to executee
> > >  command: No such file or directory
> > > Mar 12 08:35:50 elbe-daemon systemd[665]: elbe-daemon.service: Failed
> > > at step EXX
> > > EC spawning /var/cache/elbe/devel/elbe: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > A trouble shooting guide would be helpful :-)
> >
> > Now, trying to rebuild initvm I get the following message:
> >
> > echo /usr/bin/kvm
> > /usr/bin/kvm
> > /usr/bin/kvm -M pc \
> >  -device virtio-rng-pci \
> >  -drive file=buildenv.img,if=virtio,bus=1,unit=0 \
> >  -kernel .elbe-in/vmlinuz \
> >  -initrd .elbe-gen/initrd-preseeded.gz \
> >  -append 'root=/dev/vda1 debconf_priority=critical
> > console=ttyS0,115200n1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text' \
> >  -no-reboot \
> >  -nographic \
> >  -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=user.0,mac="fa:6c:bd:72:70:56" \
> >  -netdev user,id=user.0 \
> >  -m 1024 \
> >  -smp $((`nproc` > 8 ? 8 : `nproc`)) \
> >  -usb \
> >  || ( echo; \
> >       echo "------------------------------------------------------------------";
> > \
> >       echo "kvm failed to start"; \
> >       echo "This is most likely the case, because /dev/kvm is not available."; \
> >       echo "To use KVM inside a VMWARE or other VM instance,"; \
> >       echo "nested KVM needs to be supported"; \
> >       echo "------------------------------------------------------------------";
> > \
> >       echo; \
> >       false \
> >  )
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature:
> > CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
> > qemu: error reading initrd .elbe-gen/initrd-preseeded.gz: No such file
> > or directory
> >
> > But
> >
> >  l .elbe-gen/initrd-preseeded.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 user users 2.1G Mar 12 12:42 .elbe-gen/initrd-preseeded.gz
>
> errm... 2.1G is pretty big.
> you seem to have generated the initvm directory in your git checkout.
> this poses problems, because the cureent working directory is tarred up,
> and included into .elbe-gen/initrd-preseeded.gz
>
> make sure, you have a clean git checkout, if you want to use --devel

This was the problem. Thanks.

Yegor