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["Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 07:14 +0200, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 09:35 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> > That said, be aware that there is a "reset-state" command to novaclient,
> > so that you can do Chris's recommended reset without having to muck
> > around with the database directly.
> 
> where?
> nova help | grep reset
> yields nothing.

What version of novaclient are you using?  (For that matter, what
version of nova are you using?)  The "reset-state" subcommand exists in
current trunk.

> I think this is one of openstack worst weaknesses, that if the status of 
> an instance is in error-state and one has to wade through a couple of 
> logfiles (scheduler, nova-network, nova-compute) in order to find out 
> what really happened. I would be superior if the error itself would be 
> reported back to the database.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>