Installation help documentation is incorrect - verify & nova-consoleauth

[Wang Lishuo]

About Openstack's Documentation for Rocky document in Compute service – nova installation for Rocky ------> Verify operation, normally executed by document, will display one less nova-consoleauth in step 2, so execute openstack compute service list You need to start nova-consoleauth before the operation, as follows:

   systemctl enable openstack-nova-consoleauth.service
   systemctl start openstack-nova-consoleauth.service

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

OK this is a rough translation, but I think the bug is saying that this step in the install guide shows the nova-consoleauth:

https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/install/verify.html

But the earlier steps in the install guide don't mention when to start the nova-consoleauth service?

That might be residue of the nova-consoleauth service being deprecated in the Rocky release...will have to investigate.

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

Yeah looking at this page in queens you see the nova-consoleauth service being installed and started:

https://docs.openstack.org/nova/queens/install/controller-install-ubuntu.html

But not in Rocky:

https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/install/controller-install-ubuntu.html

That is because of this change: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/557489/

So we probably want to remove the nova-consoleauth mention from the verify page if we don't tell you to install/start it:

https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/install/verify.html

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/rocky
Review: https://review.openstack.org/614055

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by "Elod Illes <email address hidden>" on branch: stable/rocky
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/614055
Reason: This branch transitioned to End of Life for this project, open patches needs to be closed to be able to delete the branch.