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#openstack-nova - 2025-04-30
13:07:35 sean-k-mooney that are using unreleased oslo
13:07:42 sean-k-mooney which is a very small minority
13:07:48 sean-k-mooney so we are likey ok if they cant
13:08:27 sean-k-mooney we could also jsut swap to debian :)
13:11:33 gibi bauzas: blogpost with more data https://gibizer.github.io/posts/Eventlet-Removal-Scheduler-First-Run/
13:13:07 bauzas ta a lot
13:23:03 opendevreview LiuWenYu proposed openstack/nova master: Implements: Fixed the issue where the code logic would throw an error when reading a variable after NUMA node 0’s CPUs were fully utilized. Related-Bug: #2109675 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/948540
13:24:48 zigo sean-k-mooney: By all means, please get jobs running on Debian 13 and Py 3.13 ! :)
13:25:59 sean-k-mooney zigo: we moved nova-hybrid-plug to debian 12 to test with spice
13:26:29 sean-k-mooney zigo: so we will proably move that to debain 13 once thats avaiable provided spice is not compiled out
13:33:56 frickler zigo: fyi jamespage is no longer with canonical
13:34:14 zigo Oh, I didn't know.
13:34:44 frickler that's why I mention it ;) happened pretty recently
13:35:45 zigo Who's in charge of OpenStack stuff now at Canonical then?
13:36:35 frickler I'm not sure, I think all the contacts I knew earlier are now gone
13:40:13 zigo Only me stays ... forever ! :)
14:58:55 opendevreview Sylvain Bauza proposed openstack/nova master: Add mtty/mdpy support for testing fake mdevs https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/898100
14:58:55 opendevreview Sylvain Bauza proposed openstack/nova master: WIP : Add mtty support to nova-next https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/922140
16:20:15 sean-k-mooney bauzas: so you can just install mdevctl on ubuntu
16:20:25 sean-k-mooney its not there by default but it should be packaged
16:20:35 bauzas melwitt: fun stuff, ubuntu noble doesn't have mdevctl https://storage.bhs.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b626f72581e3644c/zuul_opendev_logs_92e/openstack/92e4f13448c94210af9f36f145e4a58c/controller/logs/screen-n-cpu.txt
16:20:38 sean-k-mooney https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man8/mdevctl.8.html
16:20:52 sean-k-mooney bauzas: it does its just not instlaled by defualt
16:20:56 bauzas sean-k-mooney: yeah, we need to install it in nova-next
16:21:13 sean-k-mooney you could add it to bindep in the test profile
16:21:17 bauzas but honestly, I hate that silent exception
16:21:20 sean-k-mooney to keep it optional
16:21:54 sean-k-mooney bauzas: well the better fix would be to fall back to the old way of not using libvirt persitnace if mdevctl is not there
16:22:05 bauzas sean-k-mooney: I honestly don't know how to do it, examples would be welcomed
16:22:28 bauzas sean-k-mooney: yup, we should failback on a libvirt exception
16:22:28 sean-k-mooney sure just add the package to https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/bindep.txt
16:22:48 bauzas I know what bindep is, I don't know how to make it optional
16:22:56 sean-k-mooney [platform:dpkg test]
16:23:04 sean-k-mooney install on debing but only for the test profile
16:23:11 sean-k-mooney we use test in devstack
16:23:21 bauzas k
16:23:30 sean-k-mooney we could jsut list it as required
16:23:46 sean-k-mooney i.e. without test
16:23:58 sean-k-mooney if we want to always use the new persitance api
16:24:04 bauzas that's what we do
16:24:21 bauzas anyway, I'll quickly add it to bindep before I go off
16:26:03 opendevreview Sylvain Bauza proposed openstack/nova master: Add mtty/mdpy support for testing fake mdevs https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/898100
16:26:04 opendevreview Sylvain Bauza proposed openstack/nova master: WIP : Add mtty support to nova-next https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/922140
17:03:29 haleyb zigo: regarding Canonical contact, i would start with Billy (wolsen) who isn't usually on irc, but you could try me as a proxy, i meet with them every Monday
17:38:18 EugenMayer440180 after my instance stopped restart properly, i restarted the cluster. Now i see that the docker container nova-compute did not start (restarted the controller/computes entirely), with the message '3 RLock(s) were not greened, to fix this error make sure you run eventlet.monkey_patch() before importing any other modules.'
17:41:20 EugenMayer440180 it seems like the controller shows all the VM 'active' and running, but they are not. Seems like the state cannot be updated
17:49:35 EugenMayer440180 the actual issue seems to be 'My compute node 9946da6f-9a3d-45c7-a9e3-e7e8f99811fc has hypervisor_hostname compute1.cluster.kontextwork.net but virt driver reports it should be compute1. Possible rename detected, refusing to start!'
17:54:22 EugenMayer440180 we recently had issues with 2024.2 with hostname != hostname -f and thus we changed that the computes nor longer have a FQDN like 'compute1.cluster.kontextwork.net' but rather compute1
17:55:01 EugenMayer440180 this seems to be an issue now. Is there any way to re-register the computes with the controller using the new hostname without loosing any data?
18:13:32 dansmith EugenMayer440180: you cannot change the hostname of the computes, ever, for any reason
18:24:09 EugenMayer440180 well i just did.
18:29:34 EugenMayer440180 changed it in the database, restarted the computes and everything is up and running again
18:30:30 sean-k-mooney EugenMayer440180: the problem is the hostname is also in teh cinder and neutron dbs in several tables
18:31:01 EugenMayer440180 not using cinder, so this one i dodged. Neutron and the network agents already think about compute1
18:31:02 sean-k-mooney you would have to consitently change it in 10-20 tables
18:31:37 EugenMayer440180 at least when quering the network agents and so forth, they all use the hostname already (or lets say the hostname which is the new FQDN)
18:31:43 sean-k-mooney changing the hypervior_hostname will break all of the placement allcoations too
18:32:56 sean-k-mooney neutron port bindign if they are out of sync can be fixed by detachign the ports and reattachign them or live migration/shleve/resize
18:33:37 sean-k-mooney EugenMayer440180: the thing you hit preventign the agent form starting was likely https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/2023.1/implemented/stable-compute-uuid.html
18:34:02 sean-k-mooney after years fo saying renaming compute nodes is not supproted we finally started enforcing it
18:34:18 EugenMayer440180 checked the allocations tables in nova/nova_api/nova_cell0, they are all empty
18:34:30 EugenMayer440180 sean-k-mooney i did not choose to rename those
18:34:31 sean-k-mooney that not where they are stored
18:34:43 sean-k-mooney placement has its own db
18:35:46 sean-k-mooney EugenMayer440180: has the value of hypervior_hostname changed in the db? if so that is the name used for the compute_node resouce provider in placement
18:37:14 EugenMayer440180 found them there, as you expected. Will try to fix them there too. Thanks for the hint
18:41:07 EugenMayer440180 sean-k-mooney i understand that i tapped into the internals. But there was no other choice for me here and i will clean up the mess that this created one by one until we migrate away i assume.
18:43:33 EugenMayer440180 The reason i changed the FQDN was the migration to 2024.2 where nova stopped scheduling instances since in my case, the compute nodes always had the 'hostname' (compute1) while the hypervisors had the FQDN (hostname -f) ... it's nothing i have chosen and worked since not sure, 5 years - but then stopped here. Then i had to change the FQDN work
18:43:33 EugenMayer440180 again, so i could e.g. restore instances from glance again. What i did not notice then is that this then broke the hypervisors / nova_libvirt (which happened now)
18:44:48 EugenMayer440180 i was told then 'openstack does not like when 'hostname != hostname -f' and this can lead to issues ... which it did with 2024. Kind of suprising that something of this size cannot handle what is a usual setup for me since decades.
18:45:10 sean-k-mooney we have not chnage how the logic in nova works
18:45:21 sean-k-mooney you do not have to have host and hypervior_hostname match
18:45:30 sean-k-mooney they can be differnt they jsut can change over time
18:45:39 sean-k-mooney hypervior hostname comes form libvirt
18:45:49 sean-k-mooney you can see what it returns with virish hostname
18:46:00 EugenMayer440180 well not sure who broke it, might have been neutron, since it was all about the chassis name
18:46:05 sean-k-mooney the host value comes form the config and defautl to socket.gethostname)(
18:46:09 EugenMayer440180 'due to no OVN chassis for host: compute3'
18:46:50 sean-k-mooney neutron have ways to cofnigure that via data in the ovs db in the case of ovn or config options for ml2/ovs
18:47:06 EugenMayer440180 with 2024.2 the chassis name (which was compute1 and so forth in my case) was no longer how nova expected (since what nova expected was compute1.cluster...) - this was the change that broke it
18:48:02 sean-k-mooney the value we pass for nova to neutron in the port biding is the valuce form conf.host
18:48:18 sean-k-mooney which default to socket.gethostname()
18:48:34 sean-k-mooney so that implies either your dhcp server started handign out domians
18:48:43 EugenMayer440180 well then it either changed with neitron or kolla does no longer properly configure those - cannot say.
18:48:47 sean-k-mooney you /etc/host change teh fqdn to be the canonical hostname
18:48:54 sean-k-mooney or /etc/hostname now has the fqdn
18:48:56 EugenMayer440180 My DNS was always resolving the FQDN properly, yes
18:49:37 EugenMayer440180 yes hosts where properly setup, as usual, and also the hostname. I mean, it's the 101 and it was not changed, and after it broke, i tripple checked it.
18:50:16 sean-k-mooney ya so i know that the ovs-ctl script that is used to start ovs can also have a hostnaem parmater
18:50:39 sean-k-mooney i would assume it has to be either a change in that, in ovs or in how ovn is configured by kolla
18:50:56 sean-k-mooney EugenMayer440180: did you report an issue to the kolla team?
18:51:00 EugenMayer440180 yes, kolla might be a source for that trouble too.
18:51:15 sean-k-mooney im wondering if it could be a regresion on there end and if other will be impacted
18:51:58 EugenMayer440180 Yes / no. It basically ended up to be noones 'topic'. Neutron was insisting on 'that is how chasis are', nova was 'well it must much, this is how nova always looked for the chases' and kolla was 'well we did not change anything, do not look here'
18:55:35 EugenMayer440180 If i may ask, a different topic. The nova cli is deprecated as i have seen, but the openstack cli has no replacement for 'backup' - does this mean that it will be dropped in the (when?) near future?
18:55:56 EugenMayer440180 is there an official EOL for the nova cli?
18:57:03 sean-k-mooney yes and no. its been feature frozen for about 2 years
18:57:15 sean-k-mooney the python bindign are also frozen
18:57:35 sean-k-mooney we plan to remove it once heat/watcher/horizon stop usign it
18:58:30 sean-k-mooney EugenMayer440180: https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest/cli/command-objects/server-backup.html

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