Hello Tony:

Do you have the Neutron server logs? Do you see the "PortBindingChassisUpdateEvent"? When a port is bound, a Port_Bound (SB) event is issued and captured in the Neutron server. That will trigger the port binding process and the "vif-plugged" event. This OVN SB event should call "set_port_status_up" and that should write "OVN reports status up for port: %s" in the logs.

Of course, this Neutron method will be called only if the logical switch port is UP.

Regards.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:59 PM Tony Liu <tonyliu0592@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I see such problem from time to time. It's not consistently reproduceable.
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2021-11-23 22:16:28.532 7 INFO nova.compute.manager [req-50817b01-e7ae-4991-94fe-e4c5672c481b - - - - -] [instance: 7021bf37-348d-4dfa-b0c5-6a251fceb6cd] During sync_power_state the instance has a pending task (spawning). Skip.         
2021-11-23 22:21:28.342 7 WARNING nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-814c98a4-3fd9-4607-9abb-5fbe5cef8650 3a4c320d64664d9cb6784b7ea52d618a 21384fe21ebb4339b1a5f2a8f9000ea3 - default default] [instance: 7021bf37-348d-4dfa-b0c5-6a251fceb6cd] Timeout waiting for [('network-vif-plugged', '735d97a3-db7c-42ed-b3be-1596d4cc7f4b')] for instance with vm_state building and task_state spawning.: eventlet.timeout.Timeout: 300 seconds
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The VIF/port is activated by OVN ovn-controller to ovn-sb. It seems that, either Neutron didn't
capture the update or didn't send message back to nova-compute. Is there any known fix for
this problem?


Thanks!
Tony