# “MAD did not answer INIT command”

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/mad-did-not-answer-init-command/4775>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/mad-did-not-answer-init-command/4775 "2017-08-17T10:13:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Neha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Neha](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Neha)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/mad-did-not-answer-init-command/4775/1 "2017-08-17T10:13:50Z")

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## Hello Marcindulak, I have turned on ONE\_MAD\_DEBUG =1 and then issued systemctl restart opennebula command. The errors in oned.log file are same. The last part of oned.log file is shown below:

Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ONE][I]: Log level:3 [0=ERROR,1=WARNING,2=INFO,3=DEBUG]  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ONE][I]: Support for xmlrpc-c \> 1.31: yes  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ONE][I]: Checking database version.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ONE][I]: oned is using version 4.90.0 for local\_db\_versioning  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ONE][I]: oned is using version 5.2.0 for db\_versioning  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ACL][I]: Starting ACL Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ACL][I]: ACL Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][VMM][I]: Starting Virtual Machine Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][LCM][I]: Starting Life-cycle Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][VMM][I]: Virtual Machine Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][LCM][I]: Life-cycle Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][InM][I]: Starting Information Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][InM][I]: Information Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][TrM][I]: Starting Transfer Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][TrM][I]: Transfer Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][DiM][I]: Starting Dispatch Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][DiM][I]: Dispatch Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][HKM][I]: Starting Hook Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][HKM][I]: Hook Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][AuM][I]: Starting Auth Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][AuM][I]: Authorization Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ImM][I]: Starting Image Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ImM][I]: Image Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][ImM][I]: Starting Marketplace Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][MKP][I]: Marketplace Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][IPM][I]: Starting IPAM Manager…  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:51 2017 [Z0][IPM][I]: IPAM Manager started.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:52 2017 [Z0][VMM][I]: Loading Virtual Machine Manager drivers.  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:52 2017 [Z0][VMM][I]: Loading driver: kvm (KVM)  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:53 2017 [Z0][MAD][E]: MAD did not answer INIT command  
Thu Aug 17 15:34:53 2017 [Z0][ONE][E]: Could not load driver

It is mentioned in [http://lists.opennebula.org/pipermail/users-opennebula.org/2012-August/037575.html](http://lists.opennebula.org/pipermail/users-opennebula.org/2012-August/037575.html) that this error occurred because of failure of loading hypervisor. Please provide alternative to do this manually.

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**Author:** ![marcindulak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@marcindulak](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/marcindulak)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/mad-did-not-answer-init-command/4775/2 "2017-08-18T08:14:38Z")

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I’m unable to reproduce this error. You need to wait until a developer suggests something, or just start your test setup from scratch on a fresh OS using opennebula 5.4.

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**Author:** ![Neha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Neha](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Neha)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/mad-did-not-answer-init-command/4775/3 "2017-08-19T06:47:04Z")

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Hello Marcindulak,  
Today I have started from scratch and followed  
[Front-end Installation — OpenNebula 5.4.15 documentation](https://docs.opennebula.org/5.4/deployment/opennebula_installation/frontend_installation.html) for installation. When I run

# wget -q -O- [http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key](http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key) | apt-key add - command. I got gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found error. I have created a new thread for this issue. Please provide your suggestions.

> [@Gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/gpg-no-valid-openpgp-data-found/4781):
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> Hello, I am installing Opennebula using [https://docs.opennebula.org/5.4/deployment/opennebula\_installation/frontend\_installation.html](https://docs.opennebula.org/5.4/deployment/opennebula_installation/frontend_installation.html). While running the command wget -q -O- [http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key](http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key) | apt-key add - I got “gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found” error. I used the link [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21338721/gpg-no-valid-openpgp-data-found](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21338721/gpg-no-valid-openpgp-data-found) and performed following steps: open [http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key](http://downloads.opennebula.org/repo/repo.key) in browser save key in downloads move …
