Comment 0 for bug 1800508

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Wallace Cardoso (wallacec) wrote : Missing exception handling mechanism in 'schedule_and_build_instances' for DBError at line 1180

Description
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If an error occurs during instance creation, the user won't be able to know what exactly happened with the VM that remains always building. As usual, the workflow of creating a VM was interrupted by an exception in the method schedule_and_build_instances, so the result would be the VM is in 'error' state.

Steps to reproduce
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1) Create a VM;
2) Inject an out-of-range value in 'schedule_and_build_instances/args/build_requests>nova_object.data/instance/nova_object.data/instance_type_id', this will be enough to cause a DBError. For instance, it can be used the 1E+22 value.
3) An exception will be thrown, but seems there no exist an appropriate action when this DBError happens.

Expected result
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The VM is put in 'error' state

Actual result
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The VM is in 'build' state indeterminately, and the user never will know (without searching in the logs) what happened with the VM.

Environment
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Devstack/Stable/Queens.

Logs & Configs
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Logs attached.