when we try to create a backup for an instance, the instance task_state is stuck at image_backup and never resets to None thus failing the call
the compute manager logs look like this:
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp Traceback (most recent call last):
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py", line 275, in _process_data
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp rval = self.proxy.dispatch(ctxt, version, method, **args)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/dispatcher.py", line 145, in dispatch
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp return getattr(proxyobj, method)(ctxt, **kwargs)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/exception.py", line 117, in wrapped
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp temp_level, payload)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp self.gen.next()
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/exception.py", line 92, in wrapped
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp return f(*args, **kw)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 167, in decorated_function
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp return function(self, context, *args, **kwargs)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 202, in decorated_function
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp kwargs['instance']['uuid'], e, sys.exc_info())
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp self.gen.next()
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 196, in decorated_function
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp return function(self, context, *args, **kwargs)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1143, in snapshot_instance
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp expected_task_state=task_states.IMAGE_SNAPSHOT)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 254, in _instance_update
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp context, instance_uuid, kwargs)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/db/api.py", line 675, in instance_update_and_get_original
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp values)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py", line 130, in wrapper
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp return f(*args, **kwargs)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py", line 1768, in instance_update_and_get_original
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp copy_old_instance=True)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py", line 1788, in _instance_update
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp expected=expected)
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp UnexpectedTaskStateError: unexpected task state: expecting ('image_snapshot',) but the actual state is image_backup
2012-09-14 20:36:22 TRACE nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp
Fix proposed to branch: master /review. openstack. org/13152
Review: https:/