Installation of Openstack Pike on Centos 7.4 fails - Following official guide

[Victor Gradinescu]

Hi there,

I am trying to install Openstack Pike on two Centos 7.4 servers. Each server is i7-7700 with 32 GB RAM.

I have tried every possible way with packstack and everytime I get timeouts exceeded when configuring neutron.
I have followed the guide here:
https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/

The packstack version is:
openstack-packstack.noarch 1:11.0.0-0.2.0rc1.el7

I have tried with:
packstack —allinone
packstack —multiple-hosts...
packstack —answer-file ... —timeout=600 (1200)

I’ve seen previously that there were issues with ntp. I installed and configured ntp (no warning on the Additional Information section at the end)

Each time I get the error:
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Command: 'openstack ["flavor", "list", "--quiet", "--format", "csv", ["--long", "--all"]]' has been running for more than 40 seconds (tried 4, for a total of 170 seconds)

Does anybody has any idea what's going?

Thanks,
Victor

[Alfredo Moralejo (amoralej)]

Hi,

I've successfully deployed RDO pike in a centos 7.4 following:

yum update -y
yum install "*-pike"
yum install openstack-packstack
packstack --allinone

If you get the same error following this process could you look for other errors in:

/var/tmp/packstack/latest/*log

and in

/var/log/nova/nova-api.log

[Victor Gradinescu (vicgrad)]

Well, the errors were these timeouts.

It worth noting that the servers are dedicated servers coming from a hosting provider, each one with a different public IP and on different subnets.

I also tried this guide:
https://www.rdoproject.org/networking/neutron-with-existing-external-network/

[Pradeep (paddyvgc)]

Hi ,

How to resolve this issue?
Error : Systemd start for openstack-nova-scheduler failed.

Thanks,
Pradeep

[Pradeep (paddyvgc)]

In the log , its showing

Each time I get the error:
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Command: 'openstack ["flavor", "list", "--quiet", "--format", "csv", ["--long", "--all"]]' has been running for more than 40 seconds (tried 4, for a total of 170 seconds)

I am using openstack pike in centOs 7

[niwa3 (niwatolli3)]

I had a same issue and the problem has not resolved.

I think you need to run the packstack command with --debug option.

ex.
packstack --answer-file=/root/answer.txt --timeout=0 --debug

I saw an error in log file when running /usr/bin/nova-manage db sync

mmm.

[niwa3 (niwatolli3)]

I successfully installed openstack.

The problem is timeout meanings for db-sync.

So, do the following steps.

(Step 1) go to puppet stored directory.
# cd /usr/share/
(Step 2) find the timeout variable
[root@localhost share]# grep -Ri "timeout = 300"
[root@localhost share]# grep -Ri "db_sync_timeout = 0"
grep: doc/python-webtest-2.0.23/changelog.rst: No such file or directory
openstack-puppet/modules/neutron/manifests/db/sync.pp: $db_sync_timeout = 300,
openstack-puppet/modules/nova/manifests/db/online_data_migrations.pp: $db_sync_timeout = 300,
openstack-puppet/modules/nova/manifests/db/sync.pp: $db_sync_timeout = 300,
openstack-puppet/modules/nova/manifests/db/sync_api.pp: $db_sync_timeout = 300,
grep: texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg: No such file or directory

(Step 3) change 300 to 0 (0 means infinite) for all files

for example,
vi openstack-puppet/modules/neutron/manifests/db/sync.pp
then,
change from $db_sync_timeout = 300 to $db_sync_timeout = 0

,then
vi openstack-puppet/modules/nova/manifests/db/online_data_migrations.pp
then, change the values...

(Step 4) remove installed files
sudo yum remove openstack-packstack
sudo yum remove centos-release-openstack-queens
sudo yum remove mariadb
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
rm /root/.my.cnf

(Step 5) install packages
sudo yum install -y centos-release-openstack-queens
sudo yum install -y openstack-packstack

(Step 6) run packstack command
# packstack --answer-file=/path/to/answerfile(CHANGE THIS) --timeout=0 --debug

done!

[Robert Grzelka (egrzrbr)]

Have same issue on Centos7, HP DL580 gen7, packstack train.

Kinda was going like that:

The installation log file is available at: /var/tmp/packstack/20201115-204750-pY8MjL/openstack-setup.log

Installing:
Clean Up [ DONE ]
Discovering ip protocol version [ DONE ]
Setting up ssh keys [ DONE ]
Preparing servers [ DONE ]
Pre installing Puppet and discovering hosts' details [ DONE ]
Preparing pre-install entries [ DONE ]
Installing time synchronization via NTP [ DONE ]
Setting up CACERT [ DONE ]
Preparing AMQP entries [ DONE ]
Preparing MariaDB entries [ DONE ]
Fixing Keystone LDAP config parameters to be undef if empty[ DONE ]
Preparing Keystone entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Glance entries [ DONE ]
Checking if the Cinder server has a cinder-volumes vg[ DONE ]
Preparing Cinder entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Ironic entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Nova API entries [ DONE ]
Creating ssh keys for Nova migration [ DONE ]
Gathering ssh host keys for Nova migration [ DONE ]
Preparing Nova Compute entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Nova Scheduler entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Nova VNC Proxy entries [ DONE ]
Preparing OpenStack Network-related Nova entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Nova Common entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Neutron API entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Neutron L3 entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Neutron L2 Agent entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Neutron DHCP Agent entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Neutron Metering Agent entries [ DONE ]
Checking if NetworkManager is enabled and running [ DONE ]
Preparing OpenStack Client entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Horizon entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Swift builder entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Swift proxy entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Swift storage entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Heat entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Heat CloudFormation API entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Sahara entries [ DONE ]
Adding Magnum manifest entries [ DONE ]
Preparing Puppet manifests [ DONE ]
Copying Puppet modules and manifests [ DONE ]
Applying 192.168.8.22_controller.pp
192.168.8.22_controller.pp: [ ERROR ]
Applying Puppet manifests [ ERROR ]

ERROR : Error appeared during Puppet run: 192.168.8.22_controller.pp
Error: Systemd start for openstack-nova-scheduler failed!
You will find full trace in log /var/tmp/packstack/20201115-204750-pY8MjL/manifests/192.168.8.22_controller.pp.log
Please check log file /var/tmp/...