Yes the something happening is due to the delete of server via API after confirmation that image is created, but in fact nova-compute is still working on snapshot creation while it receives the delete request, hence it deletes the server and aborts the snapshot creates. This scenario uncovered while testing with rally (rally uses nova API)
https://github.com/openstack/rally/blob/master/rally/plugins/openstack/scenarios/nova/servers.py#L281-L282 So I don't think it is a invalid test case, there need to be some guard in compute to handle these conflicting operations. ** Changed in: nova Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639914 Title: Race condition in nova compute during snapshot Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): New Bug description: When snapshot is created and immediately deleting the instance seems to cause race condition. I was able to re-create it on latest devstack on installed on 8th november This can be created with following commands. 1. nova boot --flavor m1.large --image 6d4259ce-5873-42cb-8cbe- 9873f069c149 testinstance id | bef22f9b- ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3 2. nova image-create bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3 testinstance-snap ; nova delete bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3 Request to delete server bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3 has been accepted. 3. nova image-list doesn't show the snapshot 4. nova list doesn't show the instance Nova compute log indicates a race condition while executing CLI commands in 2 above <182>1 2016-10-28T14:46:41.830208+00:00 hyper1 nova-compute 30056 - [40521 levelname="INFO" component="nova-compute" funcname="nova.compute.manager" request_id="req-e9e4e899-e2a7-4bf8-bdf1-c26f5634cfda" user="51fa0172fbdf495e89132f7f4574e750" tenant="00ead348c5f9475f8940ab29cd767c5e" instance="[instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] " lineno="/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py:2249"] nova.compute.manager Terminating instance <183>1 2016-10-28T14:46:42.057653+00:00 hyper1 nova-compute 30056 - [40521 levelname="DEBUG" component="nova-compute" funcname="nova.compute.manager" request_id="req-1c4cf749-a6a8-46af-b331-f70dc1e9f364" user="51fa0172fbdf495e89132f7f4574e750" tenant="00ead348c5f9475f8940ab29cd767c5e" instance="[instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] " lineno="/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py:420"] nova.compute.manager Cleaning up image ae9ebf4b-7dd6-4615-816f-c2f3c7c08530 decorated_function /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py:420 !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] Traceback (most recent call last): !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 416, in decorated_function !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] *args, **kwargs) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 3038, in snapshot_instance !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] task_states.IMAGE_SNAPSHOT) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 3068, in _snapshot_instance !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] update_task_state) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1447, in snapshot !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] guest.save_memory_state() !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/guest.py", line 363, in save_memory_state !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] self._domain.managedSave(0) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 183, in doit !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] result = proxy_call(self._autowrap, f, *args, **kwargs) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 141, in proxy_call !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] rv = execute(f, *args, **kwargs) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 122, in execute !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] six.reraise(c, e, tb) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 80, in tworker !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] rv = meth(*args, **kwargs) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1397, in managedSave !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainManagedSave() failed', dom=self) !!!NL!!! 30056 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: bef22f9b-ade4-48a1-86c4-b9a007897eb3] libvirtError: operation failed: domain is no longer running Nova compute should make sure the save is completed before attempting to delete the domain. 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