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I think you can get into this state if a download from Glance stalls. Also
maybe if you run out of disk space on the compute node while it's
downloading. There are probably others as well. Eventually though, all of
these situations should result in an ERROR state. How long it takes just
depends on what is broken.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, I'll try and find out next time this happens.
>
> To be precise though, the state is BUILD and the Task stays at "Build" (as
> if some API call timed out??)...
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Fri Jan 09 2015 at 13:20:20 Erik McCormick <emccormick at cirrusseven.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2015 4:43 AM, "Alex Leonhardt" <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > recently I started having problems when creating instances - "every now
>> and then" they seem to get stuck in a 'Build' state. After I terminate that
>> instance and try again, it mostly goes through fine. This is happening
>> across multiple projects/tenants and seems to affect all users.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know this issue and/or has any suggestions or links or docs
>> to read up on to troubleshoot this ?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >
>>
>> It sounds like you've got one or more compute nodes misbehaving. Check to
>> see shich node the failed instance got scheduled on and check logs there
>> also. Try and manually boot an instance there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erik
>>
>>
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