[Openstack] Not able to delete a running instance

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 16:54:00 UTC 2012


it looks like you are running a very old version of openstack (perhaps diablo?), so it might be harder to figure out the problem.
Please check:

a) if your compute worker is still up and running
b) if there is an error message in the nova-api.log or the nova-compute.log

Vish

On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:30 AM, Massimo Canonico wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a running instance and I'm not able to delete it. It is the tty img proposed here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova#Images
> 
> Note that new instances of this image work (can start-up and shutting-down).
> 
> Now the problem is that I'm not able to delete it.
> - several time "euca-terminate-instance" did not work without any error message
> 
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ euca-describe-instances
> RESERVATION     r-6xvr06s5      mex     default
> INSTANCE        i-00000004      ami-00000003    10.0.0.3        10.0.0.3        running nova_key (mex, minicloud.di.unipmn.it)  0               m1.small        2012-05-30T13:21:27Z    nova    aki-00000001    ari-00000002
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ euca-terminate-instances i-00000004
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ euca-describe-instances
> RESERVATION     r-6xvr06s5      mex     default
> INSTANCE        i-00000004      ami-00000003    10.0.0.3        10.0.0.3        running nova_key (mex, minicloud.di.unipmn.it)  0               m1.small        2012-05-30T13:21:27Z    nova    aki-00000001    ari-00000002
> 
> 
> - several time "nova delete <id>" without success:
> 
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ nova list
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> | ID |   Name   | Status |   Networks   |
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> | 4  | Server 4 | ACTIVE | mex=10.0.0.3 |
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ nova delete 4
> [mex at minicloud cred]$ nova list
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> | ID |   Name   | Status |   Networks   |
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> | 4  | Server 4 | ACTIVE | mex=10.0.0.3 |
> +----+----------+--------+--------------+
> 
> - reboot: right now, I have openstack installed/configured in one machine. I tried to reboot it and nothing has changed.
> 
> Any suggestion, please?
> 
> Massimo
> 
> 
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