vmware: (corner case) Terminating instance while in rebuilding state leaves orphaned vmdk in vcenter

[Sreeram Yerrapragada]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch an instance
2. Rebuild instance
3. While in rebuilding state, terminate the instance

[Tracy Jones (tjones-i)]

2014-06-04 13:59:21.358 ERROR suds.client [req-91d597a6-cf46-4a96-b6be-4759d6778b48 admin admin] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="urn:vim25" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <ns1:Body>
      <ns0:RetrievePropertiesEx>
         <ns0:_this type="PropertyCollector">propertyCollector</ns0:_this>
         <ns0:specSet>
            <ns0:propSet>
               <ns0:type>VirtualMachine</ns0:type>
               <ns0:all>false</ns0:all>
               <ns0:pathSet>config.hardware.device</ns0:pathSet>
            </ns0:propSet>
            <ns0:objectSet>
               <ns0:obj type="VirtualMachine">vm-139</ns0:obj>
               <ns0:skip>false</ns0:skip>
            </ns0:objectSet>
         </ns0:specSet>
         <ns0:options>
            <ns0:maxObjects>100</ns0:maxObjects>
         </ns0:options>
      </ns0:RetrievePropertiesEx>
   </ns1:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 WARNING nova.virt.vmwareapi.error_util [req-91d597a6-cf46-4a96-b6be-4759d6778b48 admin admin] Fault ManagedObjectNotFound not matched.
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-91d597a6-cf46-4a96-b6be-4759d6778b48 admin admin] [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] Setting instance vm_state to ERROR
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 5602, in _error_out_instance_on_exception
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] yield
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2564, in rebuild_instance
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] self._rebuild_default_impl(**kwargs)
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2419, in _rebuild_default_impl
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] block_device_info=new_block_device_info)
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py", line 628, in spawn
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] admin_password, network_info, block_device_info)
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/vmops.py", line 514, in spawn
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68-ba31-2063da5eee1a] uploaded_iso_path)
2014-06-04 13:59:21.364 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 93b4b307-f1f8-4a68...

[Tracy Jones (tjones-i)]

actually it worked that time. I'll keep trying to repo

[Gary Kotton (garyk)]

Hi,
I was unable to reproduce this on stable icehouse.
Thanks
Gary

[Sreeram Yerrapragada (syerrapragada)]

Even I am unable reproduce this on stable icehouse. We can mark this issue invalid.

[Tracy Jones (tjones-i)]

setting to invalid since it a seems to have disappeared