yahoo-eng-team team mailing list archive
-
yahoo-eng-team team
-
Mailing list archive
-
Message #68609
[Bug 1720862] Re: LibGuestFS Causes Nova Compute to Hang
Looks to me that is not a problem that can be solved in the Nova space,
but rather needs to be addressed by libguestfs or maybe at a lower
level.
** Changed in: nova
Status: New => Invalid
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo!
Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720862
Title:
LibGuestFS Causes Nova Compute to Hang
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
Invalid
Bug description:
A few weeks back, I followed the Newton Install Guides, and had no
major issues getting OpenStack to work (in its entirety). When I
commissioned up a 2nd Compute Node, none of the VMs would instantiate.
After quite a bit of debugging, I realized that libguestfs was the
issue.
At first, I went looking for a way to disable libguestfs in the
configuration files. But as it turned out, even if you disable it, it
still seems to be used by OpenStack. Finally, I decided to remove it
from the box entirely, after reading that if OpenStack does not see it
installed, it won't attempt to use it. I did not need anything writing
to the image, so this made sense.
As it turns out, if you uninstall it, it uninstalls OpenStack Compute
because of the dependency between the two. I went ahead and got the
rpm, and installed OpenStack Nova Compute with the --nodeps flag to
get around the libguestfs.
I have not researched why libguestfs causes so many issues. For the
time being, my strategy is to run without it and rely on CloudInit and
other ways of configuring instances.
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1720862/+subscriptions
References