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[Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/23/2012 09:44 AM, 延生 付 wrote:
>  
> Dear all,
>  
> When I deply nova-compute based on epel repository, I found openstack-nova-compute always dead but pid file exists.
> While there is no any log file generated in /var/log/nova.
> The OS is RHEL6.1. The nova.conf is copied from controller node.
>  
> [root@comp02-r11 nova]# service openstack-nova-compute status
> openstack-nova-compute dead but pid file exists
>  
> Does anybody have clues? Thanks in advance.

RHEL6.2 is the first version targeted by the EPEL packages,
though others have successfully used 6.1.
One thing to consider is upgrading libvirt.
Strange you don't get anything in the logs.
Perhaps you could run manually to debug:

/usr/bin/nova-compute --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf

cheers,
Pádraig.