Check in Nova's lock dir, on my system it's /var/lib/nova/tmp. Remove any files in there and restart the services. Nate On Apr 14, 2012 8:56 PM, "Salman Malik" <salmanmk at live.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having problem with getting nova-service to work. The last line that > is shown on the screen is: "2012-04-14 19:42:39 DEBUG nova.utils [-] > Attempting to grab file lock "iptables" for method "apply"... from > (pid=3649) inner /opt/stack/nova/nova/utils.py:936" and the service is > stuck at this point. So when I do a nova-manage service list, network > service turns out to be unhappy. I haven't found much help on how to > 'unlock' iptables file. > > Thoughts please ? > > Salman > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120414/a2238145/attachment.html>