Hi, Hien, I had same problem. The only way that I can get rid of it is to remove the record for that instance from the following 3 mysql db tables in the following order. security_group_instance_association instance_info_caches instances hope that helps. Tong Li Emerging Technologies & Standards From: Hien Phan <phanquochien at gmail.com> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net Date: 07/12/2012 02:08 PM Subject: [Openstack] [nova] VM stucks in deleting task state Sent by: openstack-bounces+litong01=us.ibm.com at lists.launchpad.net Hello list, I've just installed Openstack Essex on Ubuntu 12.04. Everything works well except one problem I just faced: When I try terminate VM in dashboard. It stuck in deleting ask for few hours until now. I can not connect VM. I try reboot using nova command and error : root at openstack-node01:~# nova reboot hien-vm02 ERROR: Cannot 'reboot' while instance is in task_state deleting (HTTP 409) root at openstack-node01:~# nova reboot hien-vm01 ERROR: Cannot 'reboot' while instance is in task_state deleting (HTTP 409) root at openstack-node01:~# nova list +--------------------------------------+-----------+--------+-------------------------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | +--------------------------------------+-----------+--------+-------------------------------------+ | b924a325-b07f-480b-9a31-3049736fbfde | hien-vm02 | ACTIVE | private=172.16.1.35, 192.168.255.34 | | e7908096-83e6-480d-9131-efa4ea73ca0d | hien-vm01 | ACTIVE | private=172.16.1.34, 192.168.255.33 | +--------------------------------------+-----------+--------+-------------------------------------+ Openstack Dashboard screenshot image: http://i.imgur.com/7e4cf.png How i can delete VMs completely ? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Phan Quoc Hien _______________________________________________ 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/20120712/f0083f17/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: graycol.gif Type: image/gif Size: 105 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120712/f0083f17/attachment.gif>