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#openstack-nova - 2019-05-28
14:07:30 cdent zigo: i would have flailed
14:07:37 zigo mriedem: I don't think so, it just went into our availability zone called "AZ3" ...
14:08:02 zigo So I get "properties group='AZ3'" when doing server show.
14:10:36 mriedem so it's blowing up here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/rocky/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L523 which makes me think the request spec was stored with an instance group without a uuid
14:10:40 mriedem is this an old instance?
14:11:05 zigo mriedem: No.
14:11:13 zigo It's a fairly recent deployment.
14:11:16 aarents Hello! Do you still have any concern regarding this: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/659054 can we workflow+1 ? mriedem
14:12:32 mriedem zigo: so you just created a server in a group and then tried to cold migrate or resize it and it blows up like this?
14:13:56 zigo mriedem: Someone created a server, the compute had a hardware issue, it rebooted, then I get no connectivity with that instance anymore (ovs-vsctl shows some qvo devices missing) so I'm trying to migrate it to fix the networking problem.
14:14:00 zigo Then I get a 500 error ...
14:14:26 zigo I'm trying to cold migrate indeed.
14:14:48 zigo And the trace is what is shown in nova-api.log when doing "nova server migrate" of that instance.
14:15:09 mriedem ok are you able to dump the request_specs entry for that instance? it should be a json blob.
14:15:25 zigo mriedem: How do I do that?
14:15:31 zigo You mean debugging ?
14:15:45 zigo Or just looking in the db?
14:15:50 mriedem select spec from nova_api.request_specs where instance_uuid=<instance id>;
14:18:40 zigo mriedem: http://paste.openstack.org/show/752161/
14:19:35 mriedem i could see where we could hit an issue by setting an instance_group on the request spec without a uuid here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/rocky/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L228 but that is meant to be some legacy code
14:19:45 mriedem which is why i asked if it were an old instance
14:20:07 zigo mriedem: Migrating worked perfectly for other instances ...
14:20:28 zigo mriedem: How do I migrate to another availability zone?
14:21:15 mriedem the server group and the az are different things
14:21:28 mriedem server group is a grouping of ... servers. az is a grouping of compute hosts
14:21:37 zigo Right.
14:21:38 zigo :)
14:21:49 mriedem since this server was created in a specific az, you can't migrate it out of that az unless you bypass the az filter in the scheduler
14:22:08 mriedem like by forcefully bypassing the scheduler, which you can't do with cold migrate
14:22:45 zigo mriedem: I find it annoying that it seems like Nova picks-up an availability zone and stick every instance to it, even if in some cases, I don't want it to do that.
14:22:48 mriedem there is definitely a busted request spec for this instance though http://paste.openstack.org/show/752162/
14:23:10 mriedem zigo: nova doesn't make servers go into an az by default
14:23:17 zigo Ah...
14:23:19 zigo :)
14:23:24 mriedem the user either requests an az during server create or the operator configures the cloud to default to a specific az
14:24:03 mriedem in fact i have a docs patch for that :) https://review.opendev.org/#/c/650444/2
14:25:22 sean-k-mooney yonglihe_: comments are on the spec. mainly some typos other then that the content seams fine
14:25:54 zigo Weird, the instance spec shows:
14:25:54 zigo "group": [ "295c99ea-2db6-469a-877f-454a3903a8d8" ] (which has the name "dockerdev")
14:25:54 zigo However, nova server show tells me: group='AZ3'
14:25:57 mriedem zigo: i think somehow we're hitting this https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/rocky/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L228 and that's causing the problem, but i'm not sure how yet
14:27:12 mriedem i can see AZ3 is the az from the request spec
14:27:13 mriedem "availability_zone": "AZ3",
14:27:39 zigo Yes.
14:31:16 mriedem i'm not sure what that group field is in nova server show...
14:31:23 mriedem nova cli or osc?
14:32:22 zigo osc
14:32:25 mriedem zigo: do you know if this server has been moved before?
14:32:40 zigo mriedem: I don't think it has.
14:32:54 zigo It has not.
14:33:01 mriedem did you check the instance actions records?
14:34:18 zigo mriedem: Nothing except my attempts.
14:35:23 mriedem and you're sure this instance was created from that rocky deployment?
14:37:19 mriedem i think we're somehow saving off a half-baked RequestSpec.instance_group after one failed attempt maybe and then that's causing a new issue loading the group from that busted request spec where the group.uuid isn't set
14:37:25 zigo mriedem: Yes, this cloud deployment has never been using something older.
14:37:46 mriedem i.e. we're hitting https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/rocky/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L228, saving that, and then failing later here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/rocky/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L523
14:38:02 zigo mriedem: Can I somehow just patch my request_spec db entry?
14:39:04 mriedem you'd have to load http://paste.openstack.org/show/752161/ from json, update the instance_group["nova_object.data"] and set the uuid field to "295c99ea-2db6-469a-877f-454a3903a8d8"
14:39:07 mriedem to match that group scheduler hint
14:39:13 mriedem and then serialize and update that db record
14:43:17 mriedem could also be hitting a reschedule loop which in rocky, the compute didn't pass the request spec back to conductor on reschedule (during resize/cold-migrate) so conductor has to build it's own request spec, that might be why we're only getting a half-baked version
14:45:38 mriedem anyway, i'm not sure what the recreate is, but i can definitely see where we could not have a requestspec.instance_group.uuid so we should probably have a check for that in RequestSpec._from_db_object
14:45:45 mriedem zigo: have you reported a bug?
14:46:21 zigo mriedem: I don't think I'd be a good reporter for this one, I don't know enough about the internals of this request_spec stuff to know what's going on.
14:46:29 zigo That's the first time I see this json output in fact.
14:47:05 mriedem you don't need to know the internals to report the bug, just what is happening and how you think you got here
14:47:18 zigo Ok.
14:47:31 zigo mriedem: Has nova moved to storyboard yet?
14:47:36 mriedem no
14:47:39 mriedem still lp
14:48:38 mriedem my guess is something like this happened: 1. create server in a group, 2. cold migrate the server which fails on host A and does a reschedule to host B which maybe also fails (would be good to know if previous cold migration attempts failed with reschedules), 3. try to cold migrate again which fails with the instance_group.uuid thing
14:49:30 mriedem the reschedule might be the key b/c like i said conductor has to rebuild a request spec and i think that's probably where we're doing a partial build of the request spec but missing the group uuid
14:56:23 zigo mriedem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1830747
14:56:24 openstack Launchpad bug 1830747 in OpenStack Compute (nova) "Error 500 trying to migrate an instance after wrong request_spec" [Undecided,New]
14:56:26 mriedem zigo: yup, thanks
14:56:35 zigo mriedem: I'm trying to add the uuid to the db entry, as you suggested.
15:03:06 zigo mriedem: I think it all starts with this:
15:03:06 zigo 2019-05-28 15:02:35.534 30706 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: ae6f8afe-9c64-4aaf-90e8-be8175fee8e4] nova.exception.UnableToMigrateToSelf: Unable to migrate instance (ae6f8afe-9c64-4aaf-90e8-be8175fee8e4) to current host (clint1-compute-5.infomaniak.ch).
15:03:40 zigo (not sure)
15:04:35 mriedem are you requesting a target host when doing the cold migration?
15:08:18 zigo Nop.
15:08:26 zigo There's 3 computes on this AZ.
15:09:03 zigo mriedem: I just migrated another VM on the same compute, and it went fine.
15:09:50 zigo For that one instance, I had request_spec: "instance_group": null
15:10:00 mriedem yeah so that server wasn't in a group
15:10:12 zigo Right.
15:10:21 zigo mriedem: Maybe I can just remove the group from that other instance then?
15:10:28 zigo (that one failing ...)
15:10:44 mriedem that would break the affinity policy for that server
15:13:01 mriedem zigo: i can generate a patch for you quick if you're in a position to try it
15:13:20 zigo I can ... :)
15:13:28 mriedem ok i'll work on something quick
15:13:43 zigo I can always apt-get install --reinstall python3-nova to go back to what it was.
15:13:50 zigo (safely)
15:14:15 zigo mriedem: I'll have to go back home in 40 minutes though.
15:15:26 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/python-novaclient master: Add a description of --on-shared-storage https://review.opendev.org/661527
15:16:13 mriedem ack, should have this up in 5 min
15:18:53 openstackgerrit Adam Spiers proposed openstack/nova master: extract baselineCPU API call from _get_cpu_traits() https://review.opendev.org/661782
15:20:12 openstackgerrit Adam Spiers proposed openstack/nova master: extract baselineCPU API call from _get_cpu_traits() https://review.opendev.org/661782
15:20:34 openstackgerrit Matthew Booth proposed openstack/nova master: Add functional test for bug 1550919 https://review.opendev.org/631294

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