juju resolved reports already resolved on a unit in error state if a hook is still running

[Matthew Williams]

Apologies for the quality of this bug report:

At the time I was called the environment was in the following state. Was in the midst of deploying openstack (trusty-icehouse)

relating ceph to nova-compute the hook reported an error and juju status reported the hook was in an error state.

Trying to do juju resolved ceph/0 responded that it couldn't mark the unit as resolved as it was already resolved. However running juju status ceph/0 reported that the hook was in error state.

Logging into the unit we observed that the hook in question was actually still running (it had hung essentially). We killed it:
ps -ef | grep "hook"

sudo kill -9 <hook-pid>

Then we tried juju resolved ceph/0 again and the hook completed.

Strawman suggestions:

It would be nice if there was some way of knowing if a hook was still running from the status page

Hand-Wave it would be nice if juju could handle this kind of situation

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

This bug has not been updated in 5 years, so we're marking it Expired. If you believe this is incorrect, please update the status.