[openstack-dev] [Cinder] how to delete a volume which is in error_deleting state

Abel Lopez alopgeek at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 19:51:38 UTC 2015


Also important to note, you should check the 'provider_location' column for
the volumes in error_deleting, otherwise you may have the space potentially
allocated on the backend, but cinder thinking it's deleted.
I also like to update 'deleted_at' to "NOW"

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Erlon Cruz <sombrafam at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is usually is related to mis-configuration on the backend driver. For
> example, if you create a volume, shutdown the driver to change some
> configuration, the backend driver can get confused while trying to delete
> the volume or even can't be able to locate the volume in the storage array.
> S
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Eli Qiao <taget at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 在 2015年01月05日 13:02, Punith S 写道:
>>
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>>  you have to log-in to MySQL cinder database , and try deleting the
>> required volume from the volumes table using the id.
>> if it fails due to foreign key constraints in volume metadata table, try
>> deleting the corresponding volume metadata and then try to delete the
>> required volume row.
>>
>>   hi Punith, I did as your suggestion, it works. but is that reasonable
>> not to delete a error_deleting even that status keeping for a quite long
>> time?
>> thanks.
>>
>>  thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Eli Qiao <taget at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> hi all,
>>> how to delete a cinder volume which is in error_deleting status ?
>>> I don't find force delete options in 'cinder delete',  then how we fix
>>> it if we got such situation ?
>>> [tagett at stack-01 devstack]$ cinder list
>>>
>>> +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
>>> |                  ID                  |     Status     |     Name    |
>>> Size | Volume Type | Bootable |             Attached to              |
>>>
>>> +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
>>> | 3e0acd0a-f28f-4fe3-b6e9-e65d5c40740b |     in-use     | with_cirros |
>>> 4   | lvmdriver-1 |   true   | 428f0235-be54-462f-8916-f32965d42e63 |
>>> | 7039c683-2341-4dd7-a947-e35941245ec4 | error_deleting |     None    |
>>> 4   | lvmdriver-1 |  false   |                                      |
>>> | d576773f-6865-4959-ba26-13602ed32e89 | error_deleting |     None    |
>>> 4   | lvmdriver-1 |  false   |                                      |
>>>
>>> +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
>>> [tagett at stack-01 devstack]$ cinder delete
>>> 7039c683-2341-4dd7-a947-e35941245ec4
>>> Delete for volume 7039c683-2341-4dd7-a947-e35941245ec4 failed: Bad
>>> Request (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-e4d8cdd9-6ed5-4a7f-81de-7f38f2163d33)
>>> ERROR: Unable to delete any of specified volumes.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eli (Li Yong) Qiao
>>>
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>>
>>  --
>>  regards,
>>
>>  punith s
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