[Openstack] Error While Launching Instance - Could not open backing file. Could not read image for determining its format ; Invalid Argument

Prashant Sawant prashant27 at somaiya.edu
Tue Dec 15 04:59:33 UTC 2015


Hi,

I am trying to launch instance on 2 node Openstack system.
Controller and compute both nodes are on Ubuntu Server 14.04 / intel i5
processor
while booting instance through command prompt as well as from dashboard,
I am getting following error in nova-compute.log

*qemuMonitorOpenUnix : 306 : failed to connect to monitor socket ; no such
a process*
*qemuprocesswaitformonitor : 1915 : internal error : process exited  while
connecting throu*
*Could not open backing file. Could not read image for determining its
format : Invalid Argument*

While launching instance  I can even see following error in syslog file
nbd8: unknown partition table
EXT4-fs (nbd8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
EXT4-fs (nbd8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
EXT4-fs (nbd8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
FAT-fs (nbd8): invalid media value (0x74)
FAT-fs (nbd8): cant find a valid FAT filesystem
block nbd8: NBD_DISCONNECT

the partition table with* fdisk -l *is as below
Device            Boot        Start            End                Blocks
            Id             System
/dev/sda1                         1             976773167        488386583+
      ee             GPT

The output of *lsblk *is as below

NAME              MAJ:MIN        RM              SIZE               RO
       TYPE      MOUNTPOINT
sda                      8:0              0                 465.8G
    0               disk
|-sda1                   8:1              0                 512M
    0                part        /boot/efi
|-sda2                   8:2              0                 457.4G
    0                part        /
|-sda3                   8:3              0                     7.9G
      0                part       [SWAP]
|

with *sudo parted* */dev/sda *the output is as below

GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help'to view list of commands
(parted) p
Model: ATA HGST HTS725050A7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: GPT

Number    Start        End          Size            File System      Name
        Flags
      1       1049kB    538MB      537MB        FAT32
                boot
      2        538MB    492GB      491GB          ext4
      3        492GB     500GB      8491MB       linux-swap(v1)

(parted)

Please help to resolve the problem. Is it due to GPT partitioning and How
can I make it understand underlying ext4 partition ? Let me know if need to
give any more details.
Thanks in advance
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*-Regards*

*Prof. Prashant Bharat Sawant*

*Asst. Professor,*

*K J Somaiya Institute of Engineering  & IT,*

*Somaiya Ayurvihar Complex, Sion(e), Mumbai*
*Mob. : 9096286742*

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