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[Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I thought I was the only one, as using Debian, but it seems I'm not.

Nova is trying to write in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6. It should not,
as an admin can decide to mount /usr read only. Here's the output:

http://paste.openstack.org/show/1253/

Of course, doing:

chown nova /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6

kinds of fixes it, but that should never happens. Lock files should be
written somewhere in /var, probably in /var/lib/nova/locks in this case.

Is this a known issue (I haven't see it in a launchpad bug)? Is that an
issue in python-lockfile? And more importantly: how to fix?

I saw, in utils.py, a "FLAGS.lock_path". Should I just add a
--lock_path=/var/lib/nova/locks in /etc/nova/nova.conf? In this case,
why isn't /var/lib/nova/locks the default, and how to change that
default in the code so that by default it goes in /var?

Thomas Goirand (zigo)