{"id":607,"date":"2019-04-30T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=607"},"modified":"2019-05-01T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T02:56:12","slug":"a-general-system-error-occurred-launch-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/a-general-system-error-occurred-launch-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"A general system error occurred: Launch failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Failure to Launch<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Sound the Alarm! Sound the Alarm!<\/p>\n

*ARRRRRRREEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
\nARRRRRRREEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR<\/p>\n

and one heck of a day sweating bullets, am-I-right?!<\/p>\n

Also sorry about the lack of updates, with spring and work, it’s been hard to find time to blog. Deepest apologies.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Story<\/span><\/h1>\n

Well it’s Tuesday so it’s clearly a day for a story, and boy do I have a story for you. I was going about my usual way of working.. endlessly to meet my goal… that never able to acquire goal of perfection…. anyway… I had completed a couple major tasks of going from vCenter 5.5 to 6.5u2, and while I have yet to blog about that fun bag (cause I had used my own PKI and certificates so the migration scripts VMware provides pooped the bed till I replaced them with self signed) but I digress this has nothing to do with that… well sort of.<\/p>\n

Where was I… oh right… I was vMotioning a couple VMs to some new 6.5U2 hosts I had setup on new hardware (yeah buddy this was a whole new world <\/em>(Why did I just say that in the voice of Princess Jasmine?)) but alas the final VM was not meant to move for it had stalled @ 20 percent (I had this happen once before during my deployment and discovered some interesting things about multi-NIC vmotions) I probably should blog about that toooooo but alas my time is running short. (I still have many other things to tackle and blog about). and then……..<\/p>\n

“A general system error occurred: Launch failure”<\/p>\n

ugh…. I could have jumped right to the logs but I jumped on google instead…<\/p>\n

CloudSpark apparently recently came across this issue and posted on all the many places he apparently could think… reddit<\/a>, and VMware forums <\/a><\/p>\n

the VMware post got a tad long, but it was more the post on reddit that got me wondering….<\/p>\n

“Haven’t seen this personally, but there’s a few things via google on the “Failed to connect to peer process” error that suggest it could be due to running out of storage. Specifically in one scenario, the \/tmp\/vmware-root folder on the ESXi host fills up with logs.” – Astat1ne<\/p>\n

When I SSH into the host and ran “df -h” I was surprised to be reported back with an error:<\/p>\n

esxcli returned an error: 1<\/p>\n

Something to that extent anyway. I ended up Moving all the VMs back off the host, and swapped out the SD card the ESXi software was installed on (I had a copy of the SD card with a clone of the ESXi software and host configure that was created right after the host was installed and configured).<\/p>\n

Sure enough after reboot powering it back on, “df -h” returned clean. I was then able to vMotion all the VMs back onto the set of new hosts.<\/p>\n

Def a generic error message I’ve never seen, and thinking about it now is rather comical. (I know when your in the middle of the problem it’s not so funny)…<\/p>\n

BUT it sure is now! :D…. this is so going to come back to bite me….<\/p>\n

(await updates here post April 30th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Failure to Launch Sound the Alarm! Sound the Alarm! *ARRRRRRREEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ARRRRRRREEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR and one heck of a day sweating bullets, am-I-right?! Also sorry about the lack of updates, with spring and work, it’s been hard to find time to blog. Deepest apologies. The Story Well it’s Tuesday so it’s clearly a day for a story, and … <\/p>\n

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