[Openstack-operators] [Nova] Question about starting nova as service versus directly

Joe Topjian joe at topjian.net
Fri Nov 20 01:37:30 UTC 2015


Hi Adam,

I've seen this happen due to permission issues. Regardless of running with
sudo, upstart is dropping to the "nova" user.

I usually debug this by setting a shell on the nova user, sudoing/su'ing to
nova, then running nova-compute from there. It should die with an error
message of the cause.

Hope that helps,
Joe
On Nov 19, 2015 3:35 PM, "Adam Lawson" <alawson at aqorn.com> wrote:

> So I can start Nova on Ubuntu/Icehouse via *$ sudo python
> /usr/bin/nova-compute* and it runs fine and stays online but it does not
> run/stay online if I use *$ sudo service nova-compute start/restart*.
>
> I guessed it might have been related to rootwrap but I ran out of time to
> troubleshoot so I reverted the image to a previously-known good state.
>
> Does anyone have an idea why this happens and how to correct? I checked
> and /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf file looked correct and /etc/nova/nova.conf as
> well via the root_helper parameter.
>
> //adam
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