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Anyway to terminate instances stuck in REBUILD or RESIZE state?

Asked by Jay Pipes

Running a set of functional tests in Tempest, I ended up with two stuck server instances -- one in REBUILD and one in RESIZE status. Attempting to terminate them via Horizon results in an error saying I cannot terminate an instance in REBUILD or RESIZE status. How can I remove these server instances?

Thanks,
-jay

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Jay Pipes (jaypipes) said : 		#1

ping.

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Best Johannes Erdfelt (johannes.erdfelt) said : 		#2

If a rebuild or resize failed and it didn't move it to ERROR, then that's a bug. If you can, please open up bugs, hopefully with tracebacks.

To delete these, you will need to set the vm_state of the instance to ERROR in the database.

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Jay Pipes (jaypipes) said : 		#3

Got it. Thanks, Johannes! I'll file bugs when I can repeat the problem.

Cheers!
-jay

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David Kranz (david-kranz) said : 		#4

I had the same problem but am not sure how to do this reset. I looked at /var/lib/nova/nova.sqlite with a sql browser but did not see much in there. Is this the right database? Is there an easy way to set the vm_state?