Can't delete a vm

Massimo Sgaravatto massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 13:33:00 UTC 2020


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:19 PM Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 14:59 +0200, Massimo Sgaravatto wrote:
> > From time to time (in particular where there are problems with the Rabbit
> > cluster) I also see this problem. In such cases I "mark" the instance as
> > deleted in the database. I don't know if there are cleaner solutions
> >
> > Cheers, Massimo
> >
> > [*]
> > update instances set deleted=1 where uuid="<vm-uuid>";
> this is not how you mark a vm as deleted.
> you set deleted=id not 1
>
>
I (wongly) thought that any number different than 0 was fine
What is the 'id' that should be specified ?

Thanks, Massimo


> >
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:35 AM Szabo, Istvan (Agoda) <
> > Istvan.Szabo at agoda.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is that in opestack you can't find this vm if I want to
> delete:
> > >
> > >
> > > nova reset-state 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7 --active
> > > Reset state for server 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7 failed: No
> > > server with a name or ID of '94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7'
> exists.
> > > ERROR (CommandError): Unable to reset the state for the specified
> > > server(s).
> > >
> > >
> > > openstack server delete 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7
> > > No server with a name or ID of '94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7'
> > > exists.
> > >
> > >
> > > nova force-delete 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7
> > > ERROR (CommandError): No server with a name or ID of
> > > '94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7' exists.
> > >
> > >
> > > openstack server delete hk-qaciapp-2020
> > > No server with a name or ID of 'hk-qaciapp-2020' exists.
> > >
> > >
> > > But if I list it like this can see:
> > >
> > > openstack server list --all-projects --long --limit -1 | grep
> > > 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7
> > > > 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7 | hk-qaciapp-2020
> > >
> > >       | BUILD   | scheduling | NOSTATE     |
> > >        | CentOS-7-x86_64-1511 (14.11.2017)          |
> > > 2caaef01-e2f9-4e93-961a-c2b2d4a6be82 | QA_VLAN62         | None
>     |
> > >
> > >
> > > :/
> > >
> > >
> > > It was created with the api before, maybe should try to delete with the
> > > API? Not sure :/
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:21 PM
> > > To: Szabo, Istvan (Agoda)
> > > Cc: openstack-discuss
> > > Subject: Re: Can't delete a vm
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> > > ________________________________
> > > Hello, before feeling instance, try to use nova reset-state to change
> the
> > > state of in instance to available.
> > > Then try to remove.
> > > Ignazio
> > >
> > > Il Mar 22 Set 2020, 06:43 Szabo, Istvan (Agoda) <
> Istvan.Szabo at agoda.com
> > > <mailto:Istvan.Szabo at agoda.com>> ha scritto:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > I have vm which is stuck in the build phase:
> > >
> > >
> > > openstack server list --all-projects --long --limit -1 | grep
> > > 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7
> > >                        | 94ab55d3-3e39-48d3-a9b2-505838ceb6e7 |
> > > hk-qaciapp-2020                        | BUILD   | scheduling | NOSTATE
> > >  |                                       | CentOS-7-x86_64-1511
> > > (14.11.2017)          | 2caaef01-e2f9-4e93-961a-c2b2d4a6be82 |
> QA_VLAN62
> > >      | None
> > >
> > >
> > > I've tried to delete with openstack server delete, nova delete force,
> > > restarted the nova services on all management nodes, restarted the nova
> > > compute service where it was originally spawned but still visible.
> > >
> > >
> > > I see in the database in couple of places either the id and either the
> > > hostname, like in instance mapping table, instances table, nova_cell0
> > > database ...
> > >
> > >
> > > I have an idea how to delete, so I'd spawn just a vm and check which
> > > tables are created the entries, and I would go through all tables with
> the
> > > problematic one and delete 1 by 1 but this will takes me hours ....
> > >
> > > Any faster way you might suggest me please?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
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