title: Q: IBM Cloud Private CE - fatal: [9.29.100.159] => The Etcd component failed to start
body: <p>First install of ICP CE 2.1.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.03 VM running on ESXi5.5. The VM has 4vCPU with 16GB ram and 170GB (small I know). The install runs 10 min and fails. I ran the install with the -vvv and it's doesn't really provide any significant insights. </p>
  
  <pre><code>TASK [master : Waiting for Etcd to start] **************************************
  task path: /installer/playbook/roles/master/tasks/kube-service.yaml:6
  Using module file /installer/playbook/library/cfc_wait_for.py
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o CheckHostIP=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o 'IdentityFile="cluster/ssh_key"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 9.29.100.159 '/bin/bash -c '"'"'echo ~ &amp;&amp; sleep 0'"'"''
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; (0, '/root\n', '')
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o CheckHostIP=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o 'IdentityFile="cluster/ssh_key"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 9.29.100.159 '/bin/bash -c '"'"'( umask 77 &amp;&amp; mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067 `" &amp;&amp; echo ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067 `" ) &amp;&amp; sleep 0'"'"''
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; (0, 'ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067=/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067\n', '')
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; PUT /tmp/tmp_LQQz6 TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/cfc_wait_for.py
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -C -o CheckHostIP=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o 'IdentityFile="cluster/ssh_key"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 '[9.29.100.159]'
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; (0, 'sftp&gt; put /tmp/tmp_LQQz6 /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/cfc_wait_for.py\n', '')
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o CheckHostIP=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o 'IdentityFile="cluster/ssh_key"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 9.29.100.159 '/bin/bash -c '"'"'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/cfc_wait_for.py &amp;&amp; sleep 0'"'"''
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; (0, '', '')
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o CheckHostIP=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o 'IdentityFile="cluster/ssh_key"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 -tt 9.29.100.159 '/bin/bash -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/cfc_wait_for.py; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1511385912.24-67181235419067/" &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;&amp; sleep 0'"'"''
  &lt;9.29.100.159&gt; (0, '\r\n{"msg": "The Etcd component failed to start. For more details, see https://ibm.biz/etcd-fails.", "failed": true, "elapsed": 1965, "invocation": {"module_args": {"active_connection_states": ["ESTABLISHED", "SYN_SENT", "SYN_RECV", "FIN_WAIT1", "FIN_WAIT2", "TIME_WAIT"], "state": "started", "port": 4001, "delay": 0, "msg": "The Etcd component failed to start. For more details, see https://ibm.biz/etcd-fails.", "host": "9.29.100.159", "sleep": 1, "timeout": 600, "exclude_hosts": null, "search_regex": null, "path": null, "connect_timeout": 5}}}\r\n', 'Connection to 9.29.100.159 closed.\r\n')
  fatal: [9.29.100.159] =&gt; The Etcd component failed to start. For more details, see https://ibm.biz/etcd-fails.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The link <a href="https://ibm.biz/etcd-fails" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ibm.biz/etcd-fails</a> takes you to a 1.2.0 Knowledge Center entry about flannel fails to start on worker node. </p>
  
  <p>Whats odd is a docker ps shows that etcd is running</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@sysicpce:~# docker ps
  CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
  652aab0c1cee        ibmcom/mariadb      "start.sh docker-e..."   17 hours ago        Up 17 hours                             k8s_mariadb_k8s-mariadb-9.29.100.159_kube-system_3b21d2ed8c3e2047c0e457af0e948b97_0
  80201425a077        ibmcom/etcd         "etcd --name=etcd0..."   17 hours ago        Up 17 hours                             k8s_etcd_k8s-etcd-9.29.100.159_kube-system_b674f0dc7c07780868387aaea0ba7acc_0
  a5be8a1e0c25        ibmcom/pause:3.0    "/pause"                 17 hours ago        Up 17 hours                             k8s_POD_k8s-mariadb-9.29.100.159_kube-system_3b21d2ed8c3e2047c0e457af0e948b97_0
  d82b0c6e5fa0        ibmcom/pause:3.0    "/pause"                 17 hours ago        Up 17 hours                             k8s_POD_k8s-etcd-9.29.100.159_kube-system_b674f0dc7c07780868387aaea0ba7acc_0
  6574c3760499        ibmcom/kubernetes   "/hyperkube proxy ..."   18 hours ago        Up 18 hours                             k8s_proxy_k8s-proxy-9.29.100.159_kube-system_708dfdafb2a5d66e99356e10e609f6b1_0
  3b4621d57fef        ibmcom/pause:3.0    "/pause"                 18 hours ago        Up 18 hours                             k8s_POD_k8s-proxy-9.29.100.159_kube-system_708dfdafb2a5d66e99356e10e609f6b1_0
  root@sysicpce:~#
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I resolve this? Where can/should I look next?</p>