Instances with large images sometimes fail to start/spawn
OpenStack Kilo 2015.1.1 (Mirantis)
Glance with Swift as backend (running on controllers)
When creating instances with a CentOS 6.6 image sized at 1.1 GB it fails consistently for all compute nodes but one. However when using an Ubuntu 14.04 image sized at ~250 MB it works all the time. This setup used to work, so it may have been triggered by a config change or something else.
Looking at the traceback it looks like Glance is having some issues. Tried restarting both the glance-api and glance-registry service but didn't help. Using Horizon or novaclient it initially reports as 'building', and looking at nova --debug boot [..] looks ok (checked API calls using curl).
Not sure what could be wrong, or where to look next.
Logs filtered for readability.
controller1:/var/log/nova/nova-conductor.log:
Error from last host: compute1 (compute1): [...] u'RescheduledException: Build of instance <hash> was rescheduled: HTTPInternalServerError (HTTP 500)\n'
Failed to compute_task_build_instances: No valid host was found. Exceeding max scheduling attempts 3 for instance <hash>. [...]
Setting instance to ERROR state.
compute1:/var/log/nova-compute.log:
INFO nova.compute.manager [...] Starting instance...
WARNING nova.compute.resource_tracker [...] Host field should not be set on the instance until resources have been claimed.
WARNING nova.compute.resource_tracker [...] Host field should not be set on the instance until resources have been claimed.
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] Attempting claim: memory 4096 MB, disk 10 GB
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] Total memory: ...
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] memory limit: ...
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] Total disk: ...
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] disk limit: ...
INFO nova.compute.claims [...] Claim succesful
INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver [...] Creating image
ERROR nova.compute.manager [...] Instance failed to spawn
TRACE nova.compute.manager [...] Traceback (most recent call):
Traceback:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2471, in _build_resources
yield resources
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2343, in _build_and_run_instance
block_device_info=block_device_info)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2405, in spawn
admin_pass=admin_password)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2803, in _create_image
instance, size, fallback_from_host)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 5930, in _try_fetch_image_cache
size=size)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/imagebackend.py", line 231, in cache
*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/imagebackend.py", line 480, in create_image
prepare_template(target=base, max_size=size, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_concurrency/lockutils.py", line 445, in inner
return f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/imagebackend.py", line 221, in fetch_func_sync
fetch_func(target=target, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/utils.py", line 507, in fetch_image
max_size=max_size
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/images.py", line 87, in fetch_to_raw
max_size=max_size
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/images.py", line 77, in fetch
IMAGE_API.download ...
you should check if the libvirt log file gives you some more information