debugging

General Debugging Tips

See these other pages for more specific troubleshooting:

Errors during uninstall

If you see a warning message like this one after running the uninstall command sudo openstack-install -u:

 Ubuntu Openstack Installer Uninstalling ...Could not determine install type, was /home/$USER/.cloud-install removed prior to running the uninstallation?

It's possible that the .cloud-install state directory is either missing or corrupted. Here's how to manually uninstall to a clean state:

Manual uninstall a Landscape Autopilot or Multi(MAAS) install

Make sure the nodes are released in the MAAS web ui so that their status is (Ready).

Next manually remove the ~/.cloud-install directory:

  • sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/.cloud-install

Manual uninstall a single install

Look at the IPs of the container:

  • sudo lxc-ls -f openstack-single-$USER

The output should be something like this:

⟫ sudo lxc-ls -f openstack-single-$USER                                                                                        
NAME                     STATE    IPV4                                IPV6  AUTOSTART  
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
openstack-single-ubuntu  RUNNING  10.0.3.52, 10.0.6.1, 192.168.122.1  -     YES        

Look for the IP route using the lxcbr0 bridge that routes to the container:

  • sudo ip route show dev lxcbr0

The output should be something like this:

⟫ sudo ip route show dev lxcbr0
10.0.3.0/24  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.3.1
10.0.6.0/24 via 10.0.3.52 

Here, we see that the 10.0.6.0/24 network is routed via the container's 10.0.3.52 network. This is the route that the installer set up and the one we want to delete. If we don't see a line like that, we can skip this step as the installer did not get to that point.

To delete the route: (where $N is whatever you saw above, here it'd be 6)

  • sudo ip route del 10.0.$N.0/24

Finally, remove the container itself:

  • sudo lxc-destroy -f -n openstack-single-$USER

Then to ensure a fully clean re-install, remove ~/.cloud-install:

  • sudo rm -rf ~/.cloud-install

that's it for a single install. Nothing else was installed on your system.

Debugging a Juju bootstrap

It's possible to pass the debug flag to a Juju bootstrap through the installer with the following option:

  • $ DEBUG_JUJU_BOOTSTRAP=1 sudo -E openstack-install

    Any time you want to expose environment variables to the installer make sure to run with sudo -E

This will essentially append the --debug option to juju bootstrap and give you more insight into the juju bootstrap process if problems arise.

Run in Headless mode

Sometimes problems can occur that may be masked by the UI (we're getting better at that we promise 8-)). If this happens we can run the installer in a more synchronous way to further track down the issue.

An example is to pass this configuration to the installer to run in a headless mode

   1 openstack_password: pass
   2 http_proxy: http://squid.internal:3128
   3 https_proxy: http://squid.internal:3128
   4 apt_mirror: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
   5 install_type: Single
   6 apt_proxy: http://10.0.3.1:3142
   7 apt_https_proxy: http://10.0.3.1:3142
   8 headless: True
  • $ sudo openstack-install -c config.yaml

This will do a full OpenStack deployment without any user intervention.

Juju Bootstrap timing out

This usually indicates a slow network connection to the outside world. To increase the timeout juju waits for a successful bootstrap you can edit /usr/share/openstack/templates/juju-env/maas.yaml and increase the following:

   1 environments:
   2   maas:
   3     type: maas
   4     maas-server: 'http://{{maas_server}}/MAAS/'
   5     maas-oauth: '{{maas_apikey}}'
   6     admin-secret: "{{openstack_password}}"
   7     default-series: {{ubuntu_series}}
   8     authorized-keys-path: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
   9 {%- if http_proxy %}
  10     apt-http-proxy: {{http_proxy}}
  11 {%- else %}
  12     apt-http-proxy: 'http://{{maas_server}}:8000/'
  13 {%- endif %}
  14     lxc-clone: true
  15     bootstrap-timeout: 3600  <--- INCREASE this number, default is 10 minutes.

Once changed you'll need to perform a fresh installation.

  • Keep in mind that once you upgrade the openstack package that file will be reverted back to it's default.

OpenStack/Installer/debugging (last edited 2015-11-09 15:57:27 by cpe-76-182-21-82)