executing "nova image list" for Liberty on Ubuntu results in unexpected API error

[Will Auld]

Walking through the Ubuntu Liberty installation guide, at the section on verifying that nova is installed properly I go the following error:

# nova image-list

ERROR (ClientException): Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.
<class 'glanceclient.exc.HTTPInternalServerError'> (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-6e1038ef-a985-43e7-a64a-899afe8e027d)
auld@controller:~/LibertyGuide$

==================
Nova version:

auld@controller:/var/log/nova$ dpkg -l | grep nova
ii nova-api 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - API frontend
ii nova-cert 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - certificate management
ii nova-common 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - common files
ii nova-compute 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node base
ii nova-compute-kvm 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node (KVM)
ii nova-compute-libvirt 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node libvirt support
ii nova-conductor 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - conductor service
ii nova-consoleauth 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - Console Authenticator
ii nova-novncproxy 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - NoVNC proxy
ii nova-scheduler 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - virtual machine scheduler
ii python-nova 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute Python libraries
ii python-novaclient 2:2.30.1-1~cloud0 all client library for OpenStack Compute API
auld@controller:/var/log/nova$

[Zhenzan Zhou (zhenzan-zhou)]

It looks like Glance service has some issue. Could you verify if glance works? Could you also post glance logs?

[Will Auld (will-auld)]

I didn't know this when I entered the bug but /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf was missing the lines below. The script was using sed to add this but it was not working correctly. Adding these lines makes everything work. And yes, "glance image list" has worked all a long. So, it seems that if nova properly verifies this information, that should fix this bug; that is the unexpected error when this information is not properly provided.

[keystone_authtoken]
auth_uri = http://controller:5000
auth_url = http://controller:35357
auth_plugin = password
project_domain_id = default
user_domain_id = default
project_name = service
username = glance
password = xxx

Thanks

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Configuration error

[Zhihai Song (szhsong)]

This bug report describes a situation of configuration error. But the bug still exists.
Try shutdown glance service, and do the nova image-list. An unexpected exception will occur.
So the this bug is about nova api not handling the exceptions properly.

[Zhihai Song (szhsong)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/262363/

[Alberto Molina Coballes (alb-molina)]

Found the same issue an it was solved setting project_domain_name and user_domain_name instead project_domain_id and user_domain_id

[keystone_authtoken]
...
project_domain_name = default
user_domain_name = default

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Michael Still (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/262363
Reason: This patch is quite old, so I am abandoning it to keep the review queue manageable. Feel free to restore the change if you're still interested in working on it.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

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