Gabe, responding to your question "Do you know how to reliably reproduce an instance in ERROR state that cannot be deleted?": In my case, I'm updating the status of the VM to "error" directly on the database. This is just for testing. But even when my VM is running and working fine, when I update it to "error" in the database I can't delete it.
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:49:15 +0000 > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > > There are definitely lots of cases where deleting an instance in error state > works fine, and I’d like to know about the cases where it doesn’t. They do > count against quota as well, so that’s a problem! > > I can see value in keeping an instance around �C if the operations team has > configured it to do so. However, it seems like the end user has asked for it > to be deleted and to them it should appear to be deleted. Johannes had an > idea a while ago to allow the operations team to specify a project ID that > deleted servers that match certain criteria should be moved to. If the > delete finishes up fine, then its no problem, the delete is done, the > customer is happy and the ops account is empty. If it fails for some reason, > there is manual cleanup to be done, but that should be on the operator of the > deployment, not the user. I think its critical for anything like this to be > configurable, as public clouds and private clouds have different privacy and > retention concerns, I would guess. > > Do we have cases where we can reliably reproduce this issue? If its > happening every time on some deployments there is a very serious problem! > > Gabe > > > From: Craig Vyvial [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:20 AM > To: Gabe Westmaas > Cc: Yong Sheng Gong; Openstack Mail List > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > > My understanding is that you would not always want a user to delete an > instance in an error state. So an operations person can figure out what went > wrong. I think the instances that are in error state do not count against the > quota but i agree that they clutter up the API calls to list servers. > > I have noticed this with my team and written code around this case to force > the instance into an 'active' state before sending nova the delete call if > the instance was in an 'error' or 'suspended' state. > > -Craig > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Gabe Westmaas <[email protected]> > wrote: > Instances in deleted status can normally be deleted, but there is definitely > a bug to file here somewhere �C possibly more than one. A common reason I > have seen is that the node the instance lives on is no longer operating > correctly, so the compute manager never gets the delete request, so it > doesn’t finish. If we can narrow the cases where this happens, we can file > bugs and decide how to resolve them �C although there may be some additional > work beyond just a developer picking up the bug and working on it to decide > what should happen! > > Do you know how to reliably reproduce an instance in ERROR state that cannot > be deleted? > > Gabe > > From: openstack-bounces+gabe.westmaas=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+gabe.westmaas=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Yong Sheng Gong > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:58 AM > > To: Openstack Mail List > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > > why not allow "nova delete" and "euca-terminate " to delete the instance with > "error" status? > > Yong Sheng Gong > > [email protected] wrote: ----- > To: Guilherme Birk <[email protected]>, Openstack Mail List > <[email protected]> > From: Mandar Vaze <[email protected]> > Sent by: [email protected] > Date: 03/22/2012 12:26PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > I agree user shouldn’t have to update DB. > There needs to be some periodic cleanup task that “fixes” the > vm_state/task_state for “stuck” instances. > > -Mandar > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Guilherme Birk > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:05 PM > To: Openstack Mail List > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > > This is the only option? I've already done that, but it's kind "strange" I > update the database row everytime the script identifies a VM with error. > ________________________________________ > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:39:03 +0800 > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Can't delete instances with "error" status. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > update "instances" table in "nova" db, set the vm_status of the instance > which you want to delete "active" and set the task_status=NULL. > After that, try to use euca-terminate > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Guilherme Birk <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm attempting to make a python script that controls all my virtual machines. > Sometimes, when the script identifies that exists an instance with status of > "error", he creates a new instance and tries to delete the old one with curl > commands, but I'm not getting any response and the VM isn't deleted. When I > execute euca-terminate instance <i-name> I got nothing too. How I should > delete instances with error status ? I didn't found any way using nova-manage > too. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > 非淡薄无以明志，非宁静无以致远 > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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