empty ERROR message in novaclient when quota exceeded

[Christian Berendt]

trying to create a new instance with a tenant that has an exceeded quota gives me an empty error message. would be nice to have a hint as sysadmin what's wrong.

os0006:~ # nova --os_username berendt --os_password xxxxxx --os_tenant_name b1systems --os_auth_url http://xxx.b1-systems.de:5000/v2.0 boot --flavor 23 --image 8b25b72c-1cd9-4641-911e-d69a1e57ed9e testing100
ERROR:

in /var/log/nova/api.log I can see this error:

2012-04-14 02:25:49 WARNING nova.compute.api [req-b59c8fdd-19f6-44f9-96c4-0529d69d1421 181fa4bf5a244420a48e2fbb28118dde b845890ccdc44640a97ff486a961858a] Quota exceeded for b845890ccdc44640a97ff486a961858a, tried to run 1 instances. Cannot run any more instances of this type.

[Yaguang Tang (heut2008)]

which version of openstack and novaclient you are use

[Christian Berendt (berendt)]

Tested with the released tarballs of Essex (2012.1).

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/6838

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/6838
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/c36ac8b3d7361e24b3157c72622477227dd77248
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit c36ac8b3d7361e24b3157c72622477227dd77248
Author: Christian Berendt <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 26 18:02:39 2012 +0200

    really output the description of an exception

    example without patch:

    nova [...] flavor-delete 123
    ERROR:

    example with this patch:

    nova [...] flavor-delete 123
    ERROR: Flavor 123 could not be found. (HTTP 404)

    fixes bug 981286

    Change-Id: I9c5cead521e48b4970850262fb9af279ec5a7753