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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

You will have to manually clean them up from the database. Folsom can actually handle this delete path but essex cannot.

Vish

On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Xin Zhao <xzhao@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have to shut down some running instances from worker nodes, as the physical machine suffer disk errors.
> After I remove them from worker nodes, nova still thinks the instances are in "shutoff" state, although they
> are completely disappeared already on worker nodes. I tried "nova delete" and "euca-terminate-instance"
> commands, try to clean them off the list as shown from euca-describe-instances, without success.  How can
> I clean up these zombie instances?
> 
> I am using essex release  2012.1.1-15 on RHEL6.
> 
> Thanks,
> Xin
> 
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