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New Install CUCM 12.0

Steven Landon
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After installing new cluster, i get the message below after a reboot.

 

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok

 

 

Any ideas?

Regards,
Steve
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ruudvanstrijp
Level 4
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Guys, I just received a Notification Alert showing there is a bug report for this issue: CSCvh55176 with title "After reboot Server is not booting back console stuck with "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok"". Apparently, the issue occurs because of an automatic vmtools installation.

 

The procedure to restore this issue is as follows:

- Boot the server with the applicable recovery CD. Once the options appear, press ALT+F2. This will take you to bash prompt.
- ls -la /mnt/part1
- ls -la /mnt/part2
- Which ever folder has newer files identify that as the active partition
- chroot /mnt/part1 or part2 (which ever one is the active partition)
- /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl -d
 - You may ignore the errors at the end
- Exit
- Disconnect the RecoveryCD
- Reboot the VM

I have tested this procedure on my broken VM (I kept it just in case) and it worked indeed! :-)

Regards,

Ruud van Strijp

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Rajan
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Hi Steve,

Looks like you need a rebuild. Pls check the below discussion on similar issue:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/unified-communications/b6k-cucm10-0-esxi-problem/td-p/2610931

HTH
Rajan
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I have rebuilt this cluster 4 times now. This is beyond just accepting that as a solution.

 

I am looking to see if someone might know what is causing this.

Regards,
Steve
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I ran into the same issue after upgrading 11.5 to 12.0 and doing the first reboot after installing a device pack on 12.0. Unfortunately I was only able to 'solve' it by restoring a DRS backup of the 11.5 cluster. When I installed CUCM 12.0 again, it worked well even after another restart. So it feels like a hit or miss thing.

 

Besides running into this issue on CUCM, I also had the same thing on PCD 12.0 after I changed its disk from 80GB to 200GB (which is possible according to the documentation).

Perhaps it has something to do with the change of RHEL to CentOS?

I believe it is related to the change from RHEL to CentOS.

 

I am probably going to stay away from 12.0 until it is a bit more baked.

Regards,
Steve
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Jaime Valencia
Cisco Employee
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Do you meet the HW/SW specs for the server you're using?

Are you deploying with the Cisco provided OVA template?

HTH

java

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yes to both.

Regards,
Steve
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One thing to try is to remove the vm from esxi, and then re-add it. 

Don't delete, just remove.

 

And when you rebuild, are you deploying a brand new OVA?

I tried deploying a new CUCM 12 OVA and using the old 'broken' VMDK file in that new VM, but it still wouldn't boot.

When I rebuilt, I used the CUCM 12 OVA to install CUCM 11.5 indeed. However, I only got the error on my Publisher; the subscriber wasn't rebuilt and still used the old CUCM 11.0 OVA.


@ruudvanstrijp wrote:

I tried deploying a new CUCM 12 OVA and using the old 'broken' VMDK file in that new VM, but it still wouldn't boot.

When I rebuilded, I used the CUCM 12 OVA to install CUCM 11.5 indeed. However, I only got the error on my Publisher; the subscriber wasn't rebuilt and still used the old CUCM 11.0 OVA.


I believe the issue is related to the change from RHEL to CentOS. I think it might be related to the OVA specifically.

Regards,
Steve
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@seanvaid wrote:

One thing to try is to remove the vm from esxi, and then re-add it. 

Don't delete, just remove.

 

And when you rebuild, are you deploying a brand new OVA?



I had tried this with the same results.

 

I downloaded a new OVA from CCO each time

Regards,
Steve
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ruudvanstrijp
Level 4
Level 4

Guys, I just received a Notification Alert showing there is a bug report for this issue: CSCvh55176 with title "After reboot Server is not booting back console stuck with "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok"". Apparently, the issue occurs because of an automatic vmtools installation.

 

The procedure to restore this issue is as follows:

- Boot the server with the applicable recovery CD. Once the options appear, press ALT+F2. This will take you to bash prompt.
- ls -la /mnt/part1
- ls -la /mnt/part2
- Which ever folder has newer files identify that as the active partition
- chroot /mnt/part1 or part2 (which ever one is the active partition)
- /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl -d
 - You may ignore the errors at the end
- Exit
- Disconnect the RecoveryCD
- Reboot the VM

I have tested this procedure on my broken VM (I kept it just in case) and it worked indeed! :-)

Regards,

Ruud van Strijp

thank you Ruud. this is exactly what I was looking for.

Regards,
Steve
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I had the same exact problem with CUCM version 12.0.1.21900-7 and resolved it with Ciscos suggested way.

Cisco should add the above release to the affected ones in the bug CSCvh55176.

An update over my previous post: I ran into a situation where somehow the vmware-config-tools.pl file did not exist on the active partition, but only on the inactive one. Here's how I copied it over and still managed to install VMware tools and boot the appropriate active partition. Of course this isn't any Cisco-supported way, but at least it worked for me so I didn't have to boot back to my old inactive partition!

 

Find all folders containing vmware-tools:

find / -type d -name 'vmware-tools'

Remove every relevant directory on the active partition, if they exist:

rm -r /mnt/part1/etc/vmware-tools

(do this for all other folders as well)
Copy folders from the Inactive partition to the Active:

cp -d -r /mnt/part2/etc/vmware-tools /mnt/part1/etc/

(do this for all other folders as well)

 

After this I was able to run the vmware-tools-config.pl script on my active partition by following the guide, starting with 'chroot'.

Regards,

Ruud

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