Public bug reported: Please refer https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1431203 for the original bug report.
As message handling of RescheduledException is suboptimal, when an instance fails to boot with retries, actual reason of the failure isn't recorded in the DB. MariaDB [nova]> select message,details from instance_faults; | Build of instance 526886f8-445b-432d-8d5e-efe575ff0e2d was re-scheduled: Failed to provision instance 526886f8-445b-432d-8d5e-efe575ff0e2d: None | File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1893, in _do_build_and_run_instance filter_properties) File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2038, in _build_and_run_instance instance_uuid=instance.uuid, reason=six.text_type(e)) | The nova log has some useful information but the above is what you see from nova API and horizon. ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488332 Title: instance fault message is truncated Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): New Bug description: Please refer https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1431203 for the original bug report. As message handling of RescheduledException is suboptimal, when an instance fails to boot with retries, actual reason of the failure isn't recorded in the DB. MariaDB [nova]> select message,details from instance_faults; | Build of instance 526886f8-445b-432d-8d5e-efe575ff0e2d was re-scheduled: Failed to provision instance 526886f8-445b-432d-8d5e-efe575ff0e2d: None | File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1893, in _do_build_and_run_instance filter_properties) File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2038, in _build_and_run_instance instance_uuid=instance.uuid, reason=six.text_type(e)) | The nova log has some useful information but the above is what you see from nova API and horizon. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1488332/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp