Can't delete or force-delete instance
This is Havana on Centos 6.5 on a VM-based test installation for learning. I am using the Redhat/Centos installation guide. One control node, two compute nodes.
My goal is to remove a few instances. Some are on a compute host that is currently down, one is on a compute host that is up but appears to be misconfigured.
First, I try nova delete. This turns some instances' Task States to "deleting", but doesn't delete anything. I am doing this as the admin user.
nova list:
+-----------+---------+------------+-------------+----------------+
| Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks |
+-----------+---------+------------+-------------+----------------+
| cirros-12 | SHUTOFF | deleting | Shutdown | vmnet=10.0.0.2 |
| cirros-15 | ERROR | - | NOSTATE | |
[...]
nova force-delete cirros-12:
ERROR: Cannot 'forceDelete' while instance is in vm_state stopped (HTTP 409) [...]
nova force-delete cirros-15:
ERROR: Cannot 'forceDelete' while instance is in vm_state error (HTTP 409) [...]
cirros-15 is on the misconfigured compute host; thus the error state.
It seems that I could use SQL to remove it from the database, but am not sure if this is the right way to do it, and it's tedious and error-prone anyway. So, what do I do in such a situation?
