HI all-

So Ive gotten up to the point where I am to launch an instance (3 node setup - controller, network, compute) and I am getting this error below. Ive been searching (mailing list, ask openstack, google) for the past two days for any explanations or ways to fix and Im at wits end - especially since this is the most generic error ever. Would anyone have ideas where to look for this? Thank you very much!

# nova --debug boot --flavor m1.tiny --image cirros-0.3.3-x86_64 --nic net-id=4b27737a-a063-4b6e-b21a-8cffab8e3dc5 --security-group default --key-name demo-key demo1


REQ: curl -i 'http://controller:8774/v2/0e272c64703d408fab77665fabc6e7e6/servers' -X POST -H "Accept: 
application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: python-novaclient" -H "X-Auth-Project-Id: demo" 
-H "X-Auth-Token: {SHA1}0a6884f08c3d40df8fe484658d7a6bfb9702d2c0" -d '{"server": {"name": "demo1", "imageRef": 
"c7590319-8719-4612-b959-8bffd405da3a", "key_name": "demo-key", "flavorRef": "1", "max_count": 1, "min_count": 1, 
"networks": [{"uuid": "4b27737a-a063-4b6e-b21a-8cffab8e3dc5"}], "security_groups": [{"name": "default"}]}}'
INFO (connectionpool:187) Starting new HTTP connection (1): controller

DEBUG (connectionpool:357) "POST /v2/0e272c64703d408fab77665fabc6e7e6/servers HTTP/1.1" 500 128

RESP: [500] {'date': 'Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:29:41 GMT', 'content-length': '128', 'content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8', 'x-compute-request-id': 'req-07dfa570-0364-4ffd-ade7-ed84ed86abc7'}

RESP BODY: {"computeFault": {"message": "The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation.", "code": 500}}

DEBUG (shell:803) The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation. (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-07dfa570-0364-4ffd-ade7-ed84ed86abc7)

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/shell.py", line 800, in main
    OpenStackComputeShell().main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/shell.py", line 730, in main
    args.func(self.cs, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/v1_1/shell.py", line 470, in do_boot
    server = cs.servers.create(*boot_args, **boot_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/v1_1/servers.py", line 902, in create
    **boot_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/v1_1/servers.py", line 554, in _boot
    return_raw=return_raw, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/base.py", line 100, in _create
    _resp, body = self.api.client.post(url, body=body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 490, in post
    return self._cs_request(url, 'POST', **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 465, in _cs_request
    resp, body = self._time_request(url, method, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 439, in _time_request
    resp, body = self.request(url, method, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 433, in request
    raise exceptions.from_response(resp, body, url, method)


ClientException: The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation. (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-07dfa570-0364-4ffd-ade7-ed84ed86abc7)
ERROR (ClientException): The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation. (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-07dfa570-0364-4ffd-ade7-ed84ed86abc7)

This is the error that shows up in nova-api.log:

2014-11-20 17:58:55.935 9225 TRACE nova.api.openstack MessagingTimeout: Timed out waiting for a reply to message ID 47e5a92644d94d1d898fd0a4c80604ac

**UPDATE: So I notice this in the nova-compute log on compute node:

2014-11-19 12:15:08.879 ...