FWIW, confirmed issue on Xenial-Mitaka aarch64: $ openstack server list +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+------------------------------------+------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image Name | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+------------------------------------+------------+ | 58d20cf7-a5c4-4845-8f26-47222513dfba | xenial-uefi-20170119b221218 | ACTIVE | private=172.16.0.15, 10.111.222.70 | | | 3fd7e3ae-c710-44d2-9a81-3077ed89b196 | xenial-uefi-20170119b221212 | ACTIVE | private=172.16.0.14, 10.111.222.67 | | | d1a8d761-44e4-464f-8056-bf58bc8b2407 | xenial-uefi-20170119b221205 | ACTIVE | private=172.16.0.13, 10.111.222.66 | | | df488910-3151-43c1-9de9-794d5095b66d | xenial-uefi-20170119212539 | SHUTOFF | private=172.16.0.12, 10.111.222.65 | | | d7a46c4b-2b63-4a8d-9ab7-dfcbf9e7032f | xenial-uefi-20170119212534 | SHUTOFF | private=172.16.0.11, 10.111.222.69 | | | 5d1275ef-9346-4598-8654-10a4b0b8da47 | xenial-uefi-20170119212528 | SHUTOFF | private=172.16.0.10, 10.111.222.68 | | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+------------------------------------+------------+ . $ for i in $(openstack server list | grep uefi | awk '{ print $2 }'); do echo $i; openstack server delete $i; done 58d20cf7-a5c4-4845-8f26-47222513dfba 3fd7e3ae-c710-44d2-9a81-3077ed89b196 d1a8d761-44e4-464f-8056-bf58bc8b2407 df488910-3151-43c1-9de9-794d5095b66d d7a46c4b-2b63-4a8d-9ab7-dfcbf9e7032f 5d1275ef-9346-4598-8654-10a4b0b8da47 . $ openstack server list +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+----------+------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image Name | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+----------+------------+ | 58d20cf7-a5c4-4845-8f26-47222513dfba | xenial-uefi-20170119b221218 | ERROR | | | | 3fd7e3ae-c710-44d2-9a81-3077ed89b196 | xenial-uefi-20170119b221212 | ERROR | | | | d1a8d761-44e4-464f-8056-bf58bc8b2407 | xenial-uefi-20170119b221205 | ERROR | | | | df488910-3151-43c1-9de9-794d5095b66d | xenial-uefi-20170119212539 | ERROR | | | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+----------+------------+ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2510, in do_terminate_instance self._delete_instance(context, instance, bdms, quotas) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/hooks.py", line 154, in inner rv = f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2473, in _delete_instance quotas.rollback() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 220, in __exit__ self.force_reraise() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 196, in force_reraise six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2437, in _delete_instance self._shutdown_instance(context, instance, bdms) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2346, in _shutdown_instance requested_networks) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 220, in __exit__ self.force_reraise() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 196, in force_reraise six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2333, in _shutdown_instance block_device_info) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1039, in destroy destroy_disks, migrate_data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1152, in cleanup self._undefine_domain(instance) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1051, in _undefine_domain {'errcode': errcode, 'e': e}, instance=instance) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 220, in __exit__ self.force_reraise() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 196, in force_reraise six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1045, in _undefine_domain guest.delete_configuration() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/guest.py", line 224, in delete_configuration self._domain.undefine() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 186, in doit result = proxy_call(self._autowrap, f, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 144, in proxy_call rv = execute(f, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 125, in execute six.reraise(c, e, tb) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 83, in tworker rv = meth(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 2701, in undefine if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainUndefine() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: cannot delete inactive domain with nvram