I have found some random issues if you don't set the lock_path to a writeable directory in Cactus. Never saw any issue in Bexar. Hence, in the new version of our distro the lock_path parameter is always set.
-- Diego Parrilla CEO www.stackops.com | diego.parri...@stackops.com | +34 649 94 43 29 | skype:diegoparrilla On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I was the only one, as using Debian, but it seems I'm not. > > Nova is trying to write in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6. It should not, > as an admin can decide to mount /usr read only. Here's the output: > > http://paste.openstack.org/show/1253/ > > Of course, doing: > > chown nova /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 > > kinds of fixes it, but that should never happens. Lock files should be > written somewhere in /var, probably in /var/lib/nova/locks in this case. > > Is this a known issue (I haven't see it in a launchpad bug)? Is that an > issue in python-lockfile? And more importantly: how to fix? > > I saw, in utils.py, a "FLAGS.lock_path". Should I just add a > --lock_path=/var/lib/nova/locks in /etc/nova/nova.conf? In this case, > why isn't /var/lib/nova/locks the default, and how to change that > default in the code so that by default it goes in /var? > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp