Glance does not notify systemd when the services are up.

[Alberto Murillo]

Unlike keystone, glance does not notify systemd when the api|registry|scrubber services are up.

root@controller:~# time systemctl start glance-api
Job for glance-api.service failed. See "systemctl status glance-api.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

real 1m30.310s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.002s

The service actually starts but its status is not visible to systemd.

root@controller:~# systemctl status glance-api
● glance-api.service - OpenStack Image API Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/glance-api.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: activating (start) since Mon 2015-03-30 17:02:33 UTC; 41s ago
 Main PID: 810 (glance-api)
   CGroup: /system.slice/glance-api.service
           ├─810 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/glance-api
           ├─829 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/glance-api
           └─830 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/glance-api

Mar 30 17:02:33 controller systemd[1]: Starting OpenStack Image API Service...
root@controller:~# echo $?
3

root@controller:~# ps aux |grep glance
glance 638 4.2 1.9 196948 78876 ? Rs 16:51 0:01 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/glance-api

Attached is a patch that resolves this issue, tested against 2015.1.0b3

[Alberto Murillo (powerbsd-o)]

This is the sample glance-api.service file I used

[Unit]
Description=OpenStack Image API Service
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
Restart=always
User=glance
ExecStart=/usr/bin/glance-api

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target