We also have faced this bug in some situations. I believe, that nova shouldn't set instance to the ERROR state, because only password change operation has failed and nothing destructive has been done to the instance.
** Changed in: nova Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- 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/1746972 Title: After setting the password failed, the VM state is set to error Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Confirmed Bug description: Description =========== After we execute the command ‘nova set-password’ failed, the virtual machine state is set to error,while its power state is still running,we should not change vm_state at this situation。 Steps to reproduce ================== 1、choose a running VM which was not installed QGA, 2、execute ‘nova set-password <UUID>’ 3、the command executed failed, and the vm_state turnned to ERROR. Expected result =============== command executed failed, vm_state still ACTIVE. Actual result ============= vm_state turned to ERROR. Environment =========== Pike Nova16.0.4 libvirt & KVM Logs & Configs ============== [root@E9000slot5 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova set-password 9f9330c2-4ab4-45f1-a9f9-2770dd34cf30 New password: Again: ERROR (Conflict): Failed to set admin password on 9f9330c2-4ab4-45f1-a9f9-2770dd34cf30 because error setting admin password (HTTP 409) (Request-ID: req-0b533563-132e-42e2-8ef3-5665fa8e7187) 2018-02-02 18:55:06.529 35382 ERROR oslo_messaging.rpc.server [req-0b533563-132e-42e2-8ef3-5665fa8e7187 d118d43c722e4cf48be77d6cff727810 3ac8 6e9ee3014040832eae0191490b3f - default default] Exception during message handling: InstancePasswordSetFailed: Failed to set admin password on 9f9330c2-4ab4-45f1-a9f9-2770dd34cf30 because error setting admin password [root@E9000slot5 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova list +--------------------------------------+--------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks | +--------------------------------------+--------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+ | 9f9330c2-4ab4-45f1-a9f9-2770dd34cf30 | testyj | ERROR | - | Running | test=192.168.3.9 | +--------------------------------------+--------+--------+------------+-------------+------------------+ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1746972/+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