Cannot create SMB ISO repository on new XOA

fitzgeraldtech

I just setup a new XOA instance, using the instructions by Tom over at Lawrence Systems. This is my second XOA instance that I've built, so I'm not an absolute newbie on it, but I am still learning a lot along the way.

Anyhow, I have now added 8 hosts to my pool, and I'd like to begin adding VM's and providing storage for backup / file share for them. In the past, I'd go to New --> Storage --> Select one of my hosts from the list --> Fill out the name and description --> Select Storage Type --> SMB ISO from the ISO SR subgroup. That then allows me to fill out the Server address, username and password. But after that, it usually takes me to the next pane for storage usage info and then summary so I can click Create. That's not happening anymore, those fields are not populating. I've attached a screen cap of what I'm seeing on my end.

Has anyone seen this before? I'm wondering if its a bug on my end? I've tired logging in to XOA from a couple of different systems and setting this up, and I get the same result each time, so I don't think it's a browser issue per say.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Screenshot from 2024-02-19 09-56-21edited.png

olivierlambert

Hi,

I'm not sure to get it but, first, is your XOA fully up to date? stable or latest channel? (if XO from sources, check https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/community.html first)

fitzgeraldtech

@olivierlambert thank you for your quick response, according to my about page, I'm currently on the latest stable version commit eedac on both XOA and the Master.

olivierlambert

So it's XO from the sources then? There's no commit version in XOA

Anyway, do you have any visible error in your logs?

fitzgeraldtech

@olivierlambert correct, from sources. I just went to check the logs, and the page is completely empty. I can see the menu structure at the top of the page

Servers
Users
Groups
ACLs
Remotes
Plugins
Logs
Audit
IPs
Cloud configs
XO config

But there's nothing but white space bellow it. Odd huh?

olivierlambert

I was talking about the output of xo-server itself

fitzgeraldtech

@olivierlambert Ha, gotha! Here's the output of the last 50 lines of the log for the XOA I have installed on a Ubuntu VM:

Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: _watchEvents Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 10.10.20.27:443
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1555:16)
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at TCPConnectWrap.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:128:17) {
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   errno: -111,
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   syscall: 'connect',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   address: '10.10.20.27',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   port: 443,
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   originalUrl: 'https://10.10.20.27/jsonrpc',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   url: 'https://10.10.20.27/jsonrpc',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   call: {
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     method: 'event.from',
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     params: [ [Array], '00000000000000002903,00000000000000000000', 60.1 ]
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   }
Feb 18 19:20:43 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: }
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: _watchEvents TimeoutError: operation timed out
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Promise.timeout (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/node_modules/promise-toolbox/timeout.js:11:16)
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi.apply (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:746:37)
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi._call (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/node_modules/limit-concurrency-decorator/src/index.js:85:24)
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi._watchEvents (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1175:31) {
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   call: {
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     method: 'event.from',
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     params: [ [Array], '00000000000000007683,00000000000000000000', 60.1 ]
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   }
Feb 19 05:34:20 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: }
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: _watchEvents Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 10.10.20.31:443
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1555:16)
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at TCPConnectWrap.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:128:17) {
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   errno: -111,
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   syscall: 'connect',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   address: '10.10.20.31',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   port: 443,
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   originalUrl: 'https://10.10.20.31/jsonrpc',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   url: 'https://10.10.20.31/jsonrpc',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   call: {
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     method: 'event.from',
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     params: [ [Array], '00000000000000002789,00000000000000000000', 60.1 ]
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   }
Feb 19 09:55:05 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: }
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: _watchEvents TimeoutError: operation timed out
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Promise.timeout (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/node_modules/promise-toolbox/timeout.js:11:16)
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi.apply (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:746:37)
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi._call (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/node_modules/limit-concurrency-decorator/src/index.js:85:24)
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     at Xapi._watchEvents (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202402181555/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1175:31) {
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   call: {
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     method: 'event.from',
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:     params: [ [Array], '00000000000000012772,00000000000000000000', 60.1 ]
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]:   }
Feb 19 10:43:38 XOA-VM xo-server[648]: }

olivierlambert

Try to capture the log when you click on "Create" button so we can correlate what's going on

fitzgeraldtech

@olivierlambert I'd be happy to, but I never have the opportunity to click on the create button, it never shows up. If you can take a second look at my screen cap above, that is as far as I get. The lower fields never do anything. I can't tab to them or click in them to fill anything else out to get to the "Create" button that is usually there. The last field that I have any editing power over is putting in my password for the SMB share, then I'm stuck.

olivierlambert

ping @Melissa-FR

fitzgeraldtech

@olivierlambert @Melissa-FR

Hi Melissa, hoping you may have solution to this one? I'm a bit of a sitting duck until I can get these shares working so I can spin up some VM's.

Danp

FYI, there appears to be a GH issue on this already -- https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/7355

TristisOris created this issue in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

closed SMB ISO storage can't be mounted #7355

fitzgeraldtech

@Danp thank you! Hopefully there is a quick resolution to the issue. I'd love to get this up and going. In the mean time, I'll try loading the ISO's locally to one of my machines for an install. Just a bit more tedious this way.

CodeMercenary

I have this same issue with NFS ISO stores as well. Fill in all the information and the create button never appears in the summary section like it should. Bug is not limited to SMB ISO storage.

Tristis Oris

@CodeMercenary do you have access rights for that nfs? It work for me on many hosts.

CodeMercenary

I take that to mean there is something that happens behind the scenes to verify the connection is good before the Connect button appears. Is that right?

I set it up to allow connections without authentication and I have confirmed I can get to it from a Windows system. I will try to mount it manually to confirm I have access.

Tristis Oris

@CodeMercenary if nothing happens\button not appear, you can check for errors at browser dev tools. Or maybe anyone else will reproduce that.

CodeMercenary

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I'm a software engineer and I do mostly web development, so I should have naturally checked that myself.

That server is at home at the moment as I test XCP-NG as a replacement for VMware at my office and it's in a room my nephew will be sleeping in for the next week or so, so I likely can't check this tonight. A bit too hot and too loud to be running while someone is sleeping in the room.

shareefj

I'm seeing this same issue, there is no "Create" button appearing in the Summary pane.

What format is the SMB Server address expected to be in? Windows style as with the OP?

If I look at the browser dev tools, it seems to be spitting out formatting errors relating to the server string:

index.js:525 [React Intl] Error formatting the default message for: "newSrSmbAddressPlaceHolder"
SyntaxError: Expected "\\#", "\\\\", "\\u", "\\{", "\\}", "{", [^{}\\\0-\x1F\x7f \t\n\r], end of input or whitespace but "\\" found.
J @ index.js:525

olivierlambert

@MathieuRA that's probably a good hint