2016-08-29 11:01 GMT+02:00 Paul Dekkers <paul.dekk...@surfnet.nl>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since my fear of backing-file issues I've had years ago with live-migration I 
> always used:
>
> force_raw_images=False
> use_cow_images=False
>
> ... on my compute nodes, to have qcow2 instances without backing file. (I'm 
> using ZFS, so deduplication is done on the filesystem anyway.)
>
> Using Ubuntu Xenial / Mitaka I found that this does not work as long as the 
> swap backing files aren't created:
>
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager 
> [req-93c219a5-0650-4121-8626-5ad6a319fb73 2476f1b03720446481b793e25277b871 
> 7b109aa61c794259a4c5d6352a3ecaa2 - - -] [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309] Instance failed to spawn
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309] Traceback (most recent call last):
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2218, in 
> _build_resources
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     yield resources
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2064, in 
> _build_and_run_instance
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     block_device_info=block_device_info)
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2761, in 
> spawn
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     admin_pass=admin_password)
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 3243, in 
> _create_image
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     swap_mb=swap_mb)
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/imagebackend.py", line 
> 254, in cache
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     if size > self.get_disk_size(base):
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/imagebackend.py", line 
> 308, in get_disk_size
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     return disk.get_disk_size(name)
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/disk/api.py", line 147, in 
> get_disk_size
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     return 
> images.qemu_img_info(path).virtual_size
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/images.py", line 50, in 
> qemu_img_info
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]     raise 
> exception.DiskNotFound(location=path)
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309] DiskNotFound: No disk at 
> /var/lib/nova/instances/_base/swap_2048
> 2016-08-29 10:24:39.053 30377 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 
> f35abbd1-ef06-4d4d-ab97-b8d79f4ac309]
>
> The _base/swap_2048 is created automatically without the two options set.
>
> Did anyone stumble upon this before? (Maybe not because there's no default 
> swap in flavors as well as the backing file setting in nova.conf?)
>

I have seen this backtrace, but in the context of ephemeral images,
not swap images, still the root cause looks to be the same. Could you
check whether the fix in https://review.openstack.org/355415 solves
the issue for you?

Yours,
Jens

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