Or rather, the compute cannot talk to the conductor. Try setting use_local=true in the compute nova.conf and restart nova-compute.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu] > Sent: 12 May 2014 19:10 > To: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: [Openstack] instances stuck in "powering on" > > Hi everyone, > > I moved my bootable volumes to better storage (nfs backend) by copying > files and editing provider_location in cinder db. The instances were > shut off for that, of course. > > Now when I power them on via dashboard, some (not all) of them get > stuck in "powering on" for as long as I care to wait. On the compute > host compute.log is full of > > > TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp > > task run WARNING nova.openstack.common.loopingcall [-] outlasted > > interval by 50.018454 sec ERROR nova.openstack.common.periodic_task > [-] Error during ComputeManager._sync_power_states: Timeout while > waiting on RPC response - topic: "conductor", RPC method: > "object_class_action" info: "<unknown>" > > -- completely unhelpful since I'm getting tons of them during normal > operation, too. > > "virsh start instance-XXXXXX" works, "nova reset-state --active" clears > up the "powering-on" but doesn't mark it "Running" regardless of > instance's power state. > > So it looks like dashboard can't talk to the compute. Any hints as to > why & where to look? > > (centos 6.current, rdo, havana, simple stupid setup w/ noop nova > networking and bootable volumes.) > > TIA > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack