BOSH Director Fails to Start
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BOSH Director Fails to Start

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Article ID: 450129

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VMware Tanzu Platform Core

Issue/Introduction

The BOSH director fails to start after about 5 minutes. You see an error similar to the following:

Started deploying
  Waiting for the agent on VM 'vm-d0527930-EXAMPLE-52678dd335b8'... Finished (00:00:00)
  Running the pre-stop scripts 'unknown/0'... Finished (00:00:00)
  Stopping jobs on instance 'unknown/0'... Finished (00:00:01)
  Running the post-stop scripts 'unknown/0'... Finished (00:00:00)
  Unmounting disk 'disk-edd2d5cc-EXAMPLEeebb19fc0982.EXAMPLE='... Finished (00:00:10)
  Deleting VM 'vm-d0527930-EXAMPLE-52678dd335b8'... Finished (00:00:36)
  Creating VM for instance 'bosh/0' from stemcell 'sc-f7054123-EXAMPLE-3a9fdac92ace'... Finished (00:00:36)
  Waiting for the agent on VM 'vm-b832bbfc-EXAMPLE-c9c65af6f20c' to be ready... Finished (00:00:34)
  Attaching disk 'disk-edd2d5cc-EXAMPLE-eebb19EXAMPLE' to VM 'vm-b832bbfc-EXAMPLE-c9c65af6f20c'... Finished (00:00:37)
  Rendering job templates... Finished (00:02:18)
  Compiling package 'golang-1-linux/a9ec2c795feaf63781b15dbd1e965f39d67f'... Skipped [Package already compiled] (00:00:00)
...
  Compiling package 'database-backup-restorer-postgres-16/0f7a70c489ad66cc581dba590235e42ebbbeed2f754'... Skipped [Package already compiled] (00:00:00)
  Compiling package 'director/ffe30601244cbd5c93b18c43e69ef09b6'... Skipped [Package already compiled] (00:00:00)
  Updating instance 'bosh/0'... Finished (00:00:50)
  Waiting for instance 'bosh/0' to be running... Failed (00:05:03)
Failed deploying (00:11:57)

 

The monit summary command on the director shows that the metrics_server is down (not monitored):

bosh/0:~# monit summary
The Monit daemon 5.2.5 uptime: 15d 2h 7m 

Process 'nats'                      running
Process 'bosh_nats_sync'            running
Process 'postgres'                  running
Process 'director'                  running
Process 'worker_1'                  running
Process 'worker_2'                  running
Process 'worker_3'                  running
Process 'worker_4'                  running
Process 'worker_5'                  running
Process 'dynamic_disks_worker_1'    running
Process 'dynamic_disks_worker_2'    running
Process 'dynamic_disks_worker_3'    running
Process 'director_scheduler'        running
Process 'metrics_server'            not monitored
Process 'director_sync_dns'         running
Process 'director_nginx'            running
Process 'health_monitor'            running
Process 'uaa'                       running
Process 'credhub'                   running
Process 'system-metrics-agent'      running
Process 'blobstore_nginx'           running
Process 'count-cores'               running

 

The log at /var/vcap/sys/log/director/metrics_server.stderr.log shows an error for "Duplicate vm type name"

/var/vcap/data/packages/director/4562e2940deb6390d3d1e38b/gem_home/ruby/3.3.0/gems/bosh-director-0.0.0/lib/bosh/director/deployment_plan/cloud_manifest_parser.rb:105:in `parse_vm_types': Duplicate vm type name 'example_type' (Bosh::Director::DeploymentDuplicateVmTypeName)

 

Cause

There are duplicate vm_type names in your BOSH cloud configs

Resolution

Run bosh configs and check each cloud config. If any vm_type names appear more than once across the configs then they will need to be removed except for one. The names for vm_types must be unique

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