Yes, this issue is fixed by https://review.openstack.org/#/c/296532/ for everyone. Any PID file that would block keepalived from starting (regardless of the contents, empty/numeric/non-numeric) is removed before keepalived is started.
-- 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: Fix Released Status in keepalived package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in keepalived source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in keepalived source package in Xenial: Triaged 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
