<div dir="ltr">Figured it out myself. The sample nova.conf at <a href="https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst">https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst</a> has this setting:<div>
<br></div><div>lock_path=/run/lock/nova<br></div><div><br></div><div style>Gah. Must be an Ubuntu thing? I'm running on RHEL 6.3 I changed this to:</div><div style><br></div><div style>lock_path=/var/lock/nova<br></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>And then I had to run this:</div><div style><br></div><div style>usermod -G lock nova</div><div style><br></div><div style>After that:</div><div style><br></div><div style><div>[root@kvm-cs-sn-10i nova]# virsh list</div>
<div> Id Name State</div><div>----------------------------------------------------</div><div> 1 instance-0000000a running</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Greg Chavez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.chavez@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.chavez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>It's a slog, but I appear to be on the cusp on launching my first VM with using the 3-NIC network node setup outline by the OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst guide at github. Right now, I'm getting this error on my compute node when I try to launch the Cirros test image. I am sooooo close. Can anyone help? Thanks.<div>
<br></div><div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-2aa04352-6e7f-4c54-abcd-4586ce522266 65fdf1a86cfa4e50aafb6c132106e00f cec6647113c74b66b308de14032e591a] [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] Instance failed to spawn</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] Traceback (most recent call last):</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 747, in _spawn</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] block_device_info)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/exception.py", line 117, in wrapped</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] temp_level, payload)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/contextlib.py", line 23, in __exit__</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] self.gen.next()</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/exception.py", line 92, in wrapped</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] return f(*args, **kw)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1092, in spawn</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] block_device_info)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1929, in _create_domain_and_network</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] self.firewall_driver.setup_basic_filtering(instance, network_info)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/firewall.py", line 215, in setup_basic_filtering</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] self.refresh_provider_fw_rules()</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/firewall.py", line 453, in refresh_provider_fw_rules</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] self._do_refresh_provider_fw_rules()</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/utils.py", line 739, in inner</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] ensure_tree(local_lock_path)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/utils.py", line 1324, in ensure_tree</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] os.makedirs(path)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] makedirs(head, mode)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] makedirs(head, mode)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] mkdir(name, mode)</div><div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/run'</div>
<div>2013-02-08 11:42:09 40898 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 563385d7-0654-45f0-8c81-8aaa3acdcd65]</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>\*..+.-<br>--Greg Chavez<br>+//..;};
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