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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, I had the same issue and fixed that doing a chwon and changing the ownership to my user of the files in /etc/nova where the owner was the user nova.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In my case the files were: api-paste.ini and policy.json<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I posted the solution there too:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19843239/getting-nova628die-trying-to-start-openstack-nova-module">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19843239/getting-nova628die-trying-to-start-openstack-nova-module</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Krishanu Dhar [mailto:rony.kris@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] nova-api fails to start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any other recommendations on how to have a successful devstack installation?
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Krishanu Dhar <<a href="mailto:rony.kris@gmail.com" target="_blank">rony.kris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nova/api-paste.ini'<br>
2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova <br>
n-api failed to start<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">krish@krish-VirtualBox:/opt/stack/nova$ ls -l /etc/nova/api-paste.ini<br>
-rw------- 1 nova nova 4260 Apr 23 2013 /etc/nova/api-paste.ini<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">isn't it expected to fail if the file is owned by "nova"... weird.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Krishanu Dhar <<a href="mailto:rony.kris@gmail.com" target="_blank">rony.kris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">it did not even start the process in my case.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Telles Nobrega <<a href="mailto:tellesnobrega@gmail.com" target="_blank">tellesnobrega@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Weird, i had the same problem, but when i kill the processes it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Krishanu Dhar <<a href="mailto:rony.kris@gmail.com" target="_blank">rony.kris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing was left behind. <br>
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#ps aux|grep -ie nova did not return anything.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Telles Nobrega <<a href="mailto:tellesnobrega@gmail.com" target="_blank">tellesnobrega@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Did you check if there are any nova process left running?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Krishanu Dhar <<a href="mailto:rony.kris@gmail.com" target="_blank">rony.kris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Telles Nobrega <<a href="mailto:tellesnobrega@gmail.com" target="_blank">tellesnobrega@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Try running this to kill them all (ps aux | grep -ie nova | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9) and try ./stack again</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Noorul Islam K M <<a href="mailto:noorul@noorul.com" target="_blank">noorul@noorul.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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> Hi,<br>
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> I was trying to install the devstack and it failed while starting the nova<br>
> api. below is a snippet from the console. Is it a bug?<br>
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> + screen -S stack -p n-api -X stuff 'cd /opt/stack/nova &&<br>
> /usr/local/bin/nova-a'i || echo "n-api failed to start" | tee<br>
> "/opt/stack/status/stack/n-api.failure"<br>
> + echo 'Waiting for nova-api to start...'<br>
> Waiting for nova-api to start...<br>
> + wait_for_service 60 <a href="http://10.0.2.15:8774" target="_blank">http://10.0.2.15:8774</a><br>
> + local timeout=60<br>
> + local url=<a href="http://10.0.2.15:8774" target="_blank">http://10.0.2.15:8774</a><br>
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> <a href="http://10.0.2.15:8774" target="_blank">http://10.0.2.15:8774</a> >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done'<br>
> + die 628 'nova-api did not start'<br>
> + local exitcode=0<br>
> + set +o xtrace<br>
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> ./stack.sh:1084:start_nova_api<br>
> /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628:die<br>
> [ERROR] /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628 nova-api did not start<br>
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Noorul<o:p></o:p></p>
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