<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>Under some conditions, I see this error in nova show <id>.<br><br>| fault | {u'message': u'Failed to terminate process 956 with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy', u'code': 500, u'created': u'2014-01-21T10:10:32Z'} |<br>
<br>After that delete/reboot/destroy/rebuild that instance will all fail. The only way I know to get rid of that state is to reboot the hypervisor.<br><br></div>Here are the relevant logs:<br></div>libvirt.log<br>2014-01-21 10:10:32.607+0000: 2175: error : virProcessKillPainfully:315 : Failed to terminate process 956 with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy<br>
<br></div><div></div>How can I get the instance deleted without rebooting the hypervisor? Is this a bug in libvirt?<br></div><br></div>The software I am running:<br></div><div>os: ubuntu 12.04.3<br>hypervisor kernel: 3.8.0-35-generic<br>
</div>openstack: havana<br></div>libvirt: 1.1.1-0ubuntu8~cloud2<br><br></div><div>I don't know how to reproduce this error yet, but it has happened before.<br></div><div></div><div><br></div>Thanks,<br>Yuanle<br></div>