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Yakkety has 1.2.20, so this is Fix Released. You asked for a backport but you haven't said what package version you're using, what release you want the fix backported to or in which releases you have confirmed the bug to exist. Is it Trusty, Xenial, both or other? For each one, please can you state whether you have confirmed the bug to exist? ** Changed in: keepalived (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu High Availability Team, which is subscribed to keepalived in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583503 Title: keepalived fails to start when PID file is empty Status in neutron: New Status in keepalived package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: After a crash of a network node, we were left with empty PID files for some keepalived processes: root@network-node14:~# ls -l /var/lib/neutron/ha_confs/0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 19 08:41 /var/lib/neutron/ha_confs/0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882.pid This causes the L3 agent to log the following errors repeating every minute: 2016-05-19 08:46:44.525 13554 ERROR neutron.agent.linux.utils [-] Unable to convert value in /var/lib/neutron/ha_confs/0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882.pid 2016-05-19 08:46:44.526 13554 ERROR neutron.agent.linux.external_process [-] keepalived for router with uuid 0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882 not found. The process should not have died 2016-05-19 08:46:44.526 13554 WARNING neutron.agent.linux.external_process [-] Respawning keepalived for uuid 0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882 2016-05-19 08:46:44.526 13554 ERROR neutron.agent.linux.utils [-] Unable to convert value in /var/lib/neutron/ha_confs/0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882.pid 2016-05-19 08:46:44.526 13554 ERROR neutron.agent.linux.utils [-] Unable to convert value in /var/lib/neutron/ha_confs/0ab5f647-1e04-4345-ae9b-ee66c6f08882.pid-vrrp and the keepalived process fails to start. As a result, the routers hosted by this agent are non-functional. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1583503/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha Post to : ubuntu-ha@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp