nightly failure - VCH creation times out during vic-machine create operation 13-1-vMotion-appliance #6701
Description
seen 11/5/2017
on VC 6.0
during 13-1-vmotion-appliance
VIC Engine build 14432
from logs
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.760-06:00 INFO ### Installing VCH ####
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG [BEGIN] [github.com/vmware/vic/cmd/vic-machine/create.(*Create).processParams:337]
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 WARN Using administrative user for VCH operation - use --ops-user to improve security (see -x for advanced help)
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG client network: IP {<nil> <nil>} gateway <nil> dest: []
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG public network: IP {<nil> <nil>} gateway <nil> dest: []
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG management network: IP {<nil> <nil>} gateway <nil> dest: []
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG VCH DNS servers: []
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG [BEGIN] [github.com/vmware/vic/cmd/vic-machine/common.(*CertFactory).loadCertificates:208]
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG Unable to locate existing server certificate in cert path
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG [ END ] [github.com/vmware/vic/cmd/vic-machine/common.(*CertFactory).loadCertificates:208] [98.18µs]
Nov 5 2017 11:26:14.761-06:00 DEBUG [BEGIN] [github.com/vmware/vic/cmd/vic-machine/common.(*CertFactory).generateCertificates:326]
[ Message content over the limit has been removed. ]
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.046-06:00 INFO "port-layer": "<nil>"
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.046-06:00 DEBUG [ END ] [github.com/vmware/vic/lib/install/management.(*Dispatcher).ensureApplianceInitializes:1067] [15m0.397619941s]
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.046-06:00 DEBUG [BEGIN] [github.com/vmware/vic/lib/install/management.(*Dispatcher).CollectDiagnosticLogs:226]
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.046-06:00 INFO Collecting bc412724-f704-4a65-8996-e6d5afb86de5 vpxd.log
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.116-06:00 DEBUG [ END ] [github.com/vmware/vic/lib/install/management.(*Dispatcher).CollectDiagnosticLogs:226] [69.697557ms]
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.116-06:00 INFO API may be slow to start - try to connect to API after a few minutes:
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.116-06:00 INFO Run vic-machine-linux inspect to find API connection command and run the command if ip address is ready
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.116-06:00 INFO If command succeeds, VCH is started. If command fails, VCH failed to install - see documentation for troubleshooting.
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.166-06:00 ERROR --------------------
Nov 5 2017 11:43:21.166-06:00 ERROR vic-machine-linux create failed: Creating VCH exceeded time limit of 15m0s. Please increase the timeout using --timeout to accommodate for a busy vSphere target
' does not contain 'Installer completed successfully'
Looks like an unresponsive VC, increasing the timeout might aid in addressing this failure. Otherwise some more digging will be needed to determine why the VC was so unresponsive(or if we just reported it as such during an error case).