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Ok, we found the reason. We forgot the eventlet.monkeypatch() to patch those system modules to be greenthread-friendly.

-Lianhao

Lu, Lianhao wrote on 2013-08-07:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Sorry to bug, but I have met a problem about the rpc call. I wrote some python code to rpc.call to nova-condcutor, but that rpc.call seems
> never return. (I'm using rabbitmq as the rpc backend) My code snippet is something like:
> 
>   conductor_api = conductor.API()
>   ctxt = context.get_admin_context()
>   services = conductor_api.service_get_all(ctxt)
> It blocks at conductor_api.service_get_all. I did some debug, and found that the main thread blocked at the line
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py#L486 waiting to get the reply messages of the
> previous rpc.call to nova-conductor out of the data queue self._dataqueue (it's of type eventlet.queue.LightQueue). Also I've confirmed that
> nova-conductor has received the rpc.call and served it. And those reply messages from nova-conductor actually had been added into that
> data queue by the line https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py#L193 . However, the main
> thread seemed never be able to wake up again.
> 
> Here is a simplified version of my code which can reproduce the same problem:
> 1. Have a nova-conductor service running
>   # nova-conductor --config-file <nova config file> 2. Get my simple
>   python code # wget
>   https://raw.github.com/lianhao/novadbtest/master/t.py 3. Run the
>   python code # python t.py --config-file <same nova config file as the
>   nova-conductor>
> Can anyone give me some clue where I'm doing it wrong? Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best Regards,
> -Lianhao
> 
> 
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Best Regards,
Lianhao