I had a problem like this when the umask was locked down. Setting the umask to 022 in the init script for nova-compute solved my problem.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Diego Parrilla Santamaría <diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com> wrote: > We use nfs backed instances a lot, and this problem normally has to do with > wrong permission management in your filer and/or client. > > Check if not only root can write on the nfs share (specially libvirt user). > > Diego > -- > Diego Parrilla > CEO > www.stackops.com | diego.parri...@stackops.com | +34 649 94 43 29 > | skype:diegoparrilla > > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > <mandarv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I saw an old question posted here : >> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/164689 >> >> But I am not trying live migration. >> >> I have nfs mounted instances_path - so when I try to spawn an instance I >> run into the above errors. Especially following : >> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 372, in >> createWithFlags >> 40842 2012-04-03 05:42:27 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp if ret == -1: raise >> libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self) >> 40843 2012-04-03 05:42:27 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp libvirtError: internal error >> Process exited while reading console log output: chardev: opening >> backend "file" failed >> >> But as you can see below, several files are created in this folder, so I >> am not sure if mine if permissions issue (Else none of the files would >> get created) The problem is reported when libvirt tries to write to >> console.log (File itself is created with correct permissions - just that >> this is zero byte file) >> >> mandar@ubuntu-dev-mandar:/nfs_shared_instances_path/instance-00000005$ ll >> total 10944 >> drwxrwxr-x 2 mandar libvirtd 4096 2012-04-03 05:42 ./ >> drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 2012-04-03 05:42 ../ >> -rw-rw---- 1 mandar libvirtd 0 2012-04-03 05:42 console.log >> -rw-r--r-- 1 mandar libvirtd 6291968 2012-04-03 05:42 disk >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mandar libvirtd 4731440 2012-04-03 05:42 kernel >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mandar libvirtd 1067 2012-04-03 05:42 libvirt.xml >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mandar libvirtd 2254249 2012-04-03 05:42 ramdisk >> >> I'm suspecting : >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/libvirt/+bug/632696 >> But I the above doesn't show itself in non-NFS setup >> >> Please suggest !!! >> >> -Mandar >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp