[openstack-dev] [nova] top gate bug is libvirt snapshot

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Wed Jul 9 21:44:48 UTC 2014


Can we get our gate images tweaked to have more verbose libvirt
logging on in general? There's been a few times in the last year or so
when we've really needed it.

Michael

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 08:58:02AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
>>
>> > This is also why I find it unlikely to be a qemu bug, because that's not
>> > shared state between guests. If qemu just randomly wedges itself, that
>> > would be detectable much easier outside of the gate. And there have been
>> > attempts by danpb to sniff that out, and they haven't worked.
>>
>> Do you think it would help if we added logging of what eventlet
>> threads are running at the time of a failure like this? I can see that
>> it might be a bit noisey, but it might also help nail down what this
>> is an interaction between.
>
> I don't think so. What I really need is more verbose libvirtd daemon
> logs when a time when it fails. I've done a gross hack with a review
> I have posted [1] which munges rootwrap to allow me to reconfigure
> libvirtd and capture logs. Unfortunately I've been unable to get it
> to fail on the snapshot bug since then - it is always hitting other
> bugs so far :-(
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/103066/
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