Looking at the logs for a test run there is a repeating INFO message which becomes a warning (after it retries enough times) when nova compute tries to create the server:
http://logs.openstack.org/83/47283/1/gate/gate-tempest-devstack-vm-full/cdc49f9/logs/screen-n-cpu.txt.gz#_2013-09-23_14_16_22_131
2013-09-23 14:16:20.126 INFO nova.virt.disk.mount.nbd [req-2e800637-20ac-486c-b3dd-cff14742e2a0 tempest.scenario.manager348477648-user tempest.scenario.manager1015858706-tenant] NBD mount error: qemu-nbd error: Unexpected error while running command. Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd7 /opt/stack/data/nova/instances/af550eec-7246-4500-898d-b22eb45109a8/disk Exit code: 1 Stdout: '' Stderr: "qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open '/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/af550eec-7246-4500-898d-b22eb45109a8/disk': No such file or directory\n"
Looking at the logs for a test run there is a repeating INFO message which becomes a warning (after it retries enough times) when nova compute tries to create the server:
http:// logs.openstack. org/83/ 47283/1/ gate/gate- tempest- devstack- vm-full/ cdc49f9/ logs/screen- n-cpu.txt. gz#_2013- 09-23_14_ 16_22_131
2013-09-23 14:16:20.126 INFO nova.virt. disk.mount. nbd [req-2e800637- 20ac-486c- b3dd-cff14742e2 a0 tempest. scenario. manager34847764 8-user tempest. scenario. manager10158587 06-tenant] NBD mount error: qemu-nbd error: Unexpected error while running command. rootwrap. conf qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd7 /opt/stack/ data/nova/ instances/ af550eec- 7246-4500- 898d-b22eb45109 a8/disk data/nova/ instances/ af550eec- 7246-4500- 898d-b22eb45109 a8/disk' : No such file or directory\n"
Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/
Exit code: 1
Stdout: ''
Stderr: "qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open '/opt/stack/