Deleted instances didn't show when calling "nova list --deleted" by non-admin users

[Zhenyu Zheng]

When calling "nova list --deleted" using non-admin context, no instance in "DELETED" will return:

root@SZX1000058625:/opt/devstack# nova list --deleted
+--------------------------------------+-------------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| 40bab05f-0692-43df-a8a9-e7c0d58a73bd | test_inject | ACTIVE | - | Running | private=10.0.0.13, fdb7:5d7b:6dcd:0:f816:3eff:fe63:b012 |
| ee8907c7-0730-4051-8426-64be44300e70 | test_inject | ACTIVE | - | Running | private=10.0.0.14, fdb7:5d7b:6dcd:0:f816:3eff:fe4f:1b32 |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+--------+------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

There is a mailing list thread discussing this here:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/088021.html

It would be good to write a functional regression test in nova to exhibit the behavior, that would go here:

https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/tests/functional/regressions

I've also confirmed the weird behavior:

https://gist.github.com/mriedem/1299a15007e413ff646a

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

What version of novaclient are you using? I'm using 3.2.1 and don't have the --changes-since option with the nova list command.

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

Oh I see because --changes-since isn't in novaclient yet, you're working on adding it here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/286423/

[Zhenyu Zheng (zhengzhenyu)]

@Matt Riedemann, yes I'm working on it.

[Nazeema Begum (nazeema123)]

Is anyone still working on this bug..!if not i would like to work on this bug

[Nazeema Begum (nazeema123)]

The command 'nova list --deleted' is provided only for the admin role (not for non-admin )to list the deleted instances, whereas non-admin users have no such privileges to access the admin functionalities of viewing the deleted instances.

The same is mentioned under the usage of "nova list[--deleted]" command in the below reference link
http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/nova.html.

Can this bug be closed as invalid or won't fix.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

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[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/598012

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Stephen Finucane (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/598012

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

To capture what I said in the now abandoned patch:

"This would change something that's not an error to an error, regardless of the weird latent behavior. Because of that, I think this would require a microversion which means we'd need a spec if we wanted to change this. gmann was compiling a list of random cleanup items for the compute API in an etherpad I believe, and this is something that could probably go in that list as a candidate for something to cleanup in a mass cleanup microversion."