"screen -x stack" should give you the clue as to why it's failing. In my case it printed
2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nova/api-paste.ini' 2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova n-api failed to start all i had to do was change the ownership of the files to the user executing stack.sh and restart the process. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Telles Nobrega <tellesnobr...@gmail.com>wrote: > I thought it worked but it actually didn't. I'm trying again > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Telles Nobrega > <tellesnobr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> It was a new installation, but i tried a couple more times, removed all >> the component folders and it worked >> >> -- >> _______________________________ >> Telles Mota Vidal Nóbrega >> >> Undergraduated in Computer Science at Federal University of Campina >> Grande (UFCG) >> >> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP >> >> On 07 Nov 2013, at 17:54, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey Telies - Were you trying to recreate the failure? or is it a new >> installation? >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Telles Nobrega >> <tellesnobr...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Now i have something like your problem, im getting >>> die 609 'nova-api did not start' >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> thanks man, incidentally i ran into your post too and it got me going. >>>> However, I was wondering if the fix should go in stack.sh.stack.sh >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Cazzolato, Sergio J < >>>> sergio.j.cazzol...@intel.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, I had the same issue and fixed that doing a chwon and changing >>>>> the ownership to my user of the files in /etc/nova where the owner was the >>>>> user nova. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> In my case the files were: api-paste.ini and policy.json >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I posted the solution there too: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19843239/getting-nova628die-trying-to-start-openstack-nova-module >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *From:* Krishanu Dhar [mailto:rony.k...@gmail.com] >>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:40 PM >>>>> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>>>> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] nova-api fails to start >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Any other recommendations on how to have a successful devstack >>>>> installation? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> below is an error that's probably the cause... >>>>> >>>>> 2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova IOError: [Errno 13] Permission >>>>> denied: '/etc/nova/api-paste.ini' >>>>> 2013-11-07 23:24:14.758 TRACE nova >>>>> n-api failed to start >>>>> >>>>> krish@krish-VirtualBox:/opt/stack/nova$ ls -l /etc/nova/api-paste.ini >>>>> -rw------- 1 nova nova 4260 Apr 23 2013 /etc/nova/api-paste.ini >>>>> >>>>> isn't it expected to fail if the file is owned by "nova"... weird. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> it did not even start the process in my case. >>>>> >>>>> I tried looking up email threads in google and looks like quite a few >>>>> have run into this before, but couldn't find a working fix. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Telles Nobrega < >>>>> tellesnobr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Weird, i had the same problem, but when i kill the processes it works >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Nothing was left behind. >>>>> >>>>> #ps aux|grep -ie nova did not return anything. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Telles Nobrega < >>>>> tellesnobr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Did you check if there are any nova process left running? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Appreciate the responses. But there is something wrong with this. I >>>>> ran unstack.sh again and retried the installation. it failed with the same >>>>> message. >>>>> >>>>> So, what are my options right now? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Telles Nobrega < >>>>> tellesnobr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sometimes after ./unstack is ran, some process are still runnning for >>>>> nova. >>>>> >>>>> Try running this to kill them all (ps aux | grep -ie nova | awk >>>>> '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9) and try ./stack again >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Noorul Islam K M <noo...@noorul.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Krishanu Dhar <rony.k...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>> > Hi, >>>>> > >>>>> > I was trying to install the devstack and it failed while starting >>>>> the nova >>>>> > api. below is a snippet from the console. Is it a bug? >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > + screen -S stack -p n-api -X stuff 'cd /opt/stack/nova && >>>>> > /usr/local/bin/nova-a'i || echo "n-api failed to start" | tee >>>>> > "/opt/stack/status/stack/n-api.failure" >>>>> > + echo 'Waiting for nova-api to start...' >>>>> > Waiting for nova-api to start... >>>>> > + wait_for_service 60 http://10.0.2.15:8774 >>>>> > + local timeout=60 >>>>> > + local url=http://10.0.2.15:8774 >>>>> > + timeout 60 sh -c 'while ! curl --noproxy '\''*'\'' -s >>>>> > http://10.0.2.15:8774 >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done' >>>>> > + die 628 'nova-api did not start' >>>>> > + local exitcode=0 >>>>> > + set +o xtrace >>>>> > [Call Trace] >>>>> > ./stack.sh:1084:start_nova_api >>>>> > /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628:die >>>>> > [ERROR] /home/krish/devstack/lib/nova:628 nova-api did not start >>>>> > krish@krish-VirtualBox:~/devstack$ >>>>> >>>>> Did you try "screen -x stack" ? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Noorul >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>>>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega >>>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Krishanu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega >>>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Krishanu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega >>>>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Krishanu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Krishanu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Krishanu >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>>>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Krishanu >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega >>> Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Krishanu >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Telles Mota Vidal Nobrega > Developer at PulsarOpenStack Project - HP/LSD-UFCG > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Krishanu
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