[openstack-dev] nova-api fails to start

Krishanu Dhar rony.kris at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 18:39:31 UTC 2013


Any other recommendations on how to have a successful devstack
installation?


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.kris at gmail.com> wrote:

> below is an error that's probably the cause...
>
> 2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/nova/api-paste.ini'
> 2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova
> n-api failed to start
>
> krish at krish-VirtualBox:/opt/stack/nova$ ls -l /etc/nova/api-paste.ini
> -rw------- 1 nova nova 4260 Apr 23  2013 /etc/nova/api-paste.ini
>
> isn't it expected to fail if the file is owned by "nova"... weird.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.kris at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> it did not even start the process in my case.
>>
>> I tried looking up email threads in google and looks like quite a few
>> have run into this before, but couldn't find a working fix.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Telles Nobrega <tellesnobrega at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Weird, i had the same problem, but when i kill the processes it works
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.kris at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nothing was left behind.
>>>>
>>>> #ps aux|grep -ie nova did not return anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Telles Nobrega <
>>>> tellesnobrega at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did you check if there are any nova process left running?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.kris at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Appreciate the responses. But there is something wrong with this. I
>>>>>> ran unstack.sh again and retried the installation. it failed with the same
>>>>>> message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, what are my options right now?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Telles Nobrega <
>>>>>> tellesnobrega at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sometimes after ./unstack is ran, some process are still runnning
>>>>>>> for nova.
>>>>>>> Try running this to kill them all (ps aux | grep -ie nova | awk
>>>>>>> '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9) and try ./stack again
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Noorul Islam K M <noorul at noorul.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Krishanu Dhar <rony.kris at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > I was trying to install the devstack and it failed while starting
>>>>>>>> the nova
>>>>>>>> > api. below is a snippet from the console. Is it a bug?
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > + screen -S stack -p n-api -X stuff 'cd /opt/stack/nova &&
>>>>>>>> > /usr/local/bin/nova-a'i || echo "n-api failed to start" | tee
>>>>>>>> > "/opt/stack/status/stack/n-api.failure"
>>>>>>>> > + echo 'Waiting for nova-api to start...'
>>>>>>>> > Waiting for nova-api to start...
>>>>>>>> > + wait_for_service 60 http://10.0.2.15:8774
>>>>>>>> > + local timeout=60
>>>>>>>> > + local url=http://10.0.2.15:8774
>>>>>>>> > + timeout 60 sh -c 'while ! curl --noproxy '\''*'\'' -s
>>>>>>>> > http://10.0.2.15:8774 >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done'
>>>>>>>> > + die 628 'nova-api did not start'
>>>>>>>> > + local exitcode=0
>>>>>>>> > + set +o xtrace
>>>>>>>> > [Call Trace]
>>>>>>>> > ./stack.sh:1084:start_nova_api
>>>>>>>> > /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628:die
>>>>>>>> > [ERROR] /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628 nova-api did not start
>>>>>>>> > krish at krish-VirtualBox:~/devstack$
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Did you try "screen -x stack" ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Noorul
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega
>>>>>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Krishanu
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega
>>>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Krishanu
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega
>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Krishanu
>>
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> --
> Krishanu
>



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