PlacementNotConfigured: This compute is not configured to talk to the placement service. Configure the [placement] section of nova.conf and restart the service.

[D G Lee]

I install and configure a compute node,folowed:
https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/install-guide-rdo/nova-compute-install.html

after 'systemctl start libvirtd.service openstack-nova-compute.service'
'openstack-nova-compute' is dead.
find an error in '/var/log/nova/nova-compute.log':

2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service [-] Error starting thread.
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service Traceback (most recent call last):
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_service/service.py", line 722, in run_service
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service service.start()
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/service.py", line 144, in start
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service self.manager.init_host()
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1136, in init_host
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service raise exception.PlacementNotConfigured()
2017-03-17 14:23:17.881 19364 ERROR oslo_service.service PlacementNotConfigured: This compute is not configured to talk to the placement service. Configure the [placement] section of nova.conf and restart the service.

How to configure "CONF.placement.os_region_name" ?

[vks1 (vikash-kumar)]

Check nova.conf of your controller. There will be [placement] section. Copy the section in computes nova.conf. Restart compute service. It should work.

[Andrey Volkov (avolkov)]

Yes, it could be something like http://ix.io/p3p.

[D G Lee (lyqgenius)]

The reason why I commit this bug is that I did not find out this section in nova installation manual, can I commit a patch to add this section in nova installation guide?

[Andrey Volkov (avolkov)]

Sure, probably you could first contact @cdent (https://launchpad.net/~cdent). AFAIK he works on docs for placement.