| 2020-11-30 15:21:31 |
Peter Sabaini |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2020-11-30 15:22:25 |
Peter Sabaini |
summary |
libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image %s of image %s was not specified |
After upgrade: "libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image %s of image %s was not specified" |
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| 2020-11-30 15:26:01 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug |
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added subscriber Felipe Reyes |
| 2020-11-30 15:36:16 |
Peter Sabaini |
bug |
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added subscriber Canonical IS BootStack |
| 2020-11-30 22:32:12 |
Dominique Poulain |
bug |
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added subscriber Dominique Poulain |
| 2020-12-15 17:42:19 |
Stephen Finucane |
tags |
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libvirt |
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| 2020-12-17 11:41:01 |
Stephen Finucane |
nova: status |
New |
Won't Fix |
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| 2020-12-21 14:51:13 |
Peter Sabaini |
bug task added |
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nova (Ubuntu) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:08 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug task added |
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libvirt (Ubuntu) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Focal |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug task added |
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libvirt (Ubuntu Focal) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug task added |
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nova (Ubuntu Focal) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Groovy |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug task added |
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libvirt (Ubuntu Groovy) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:18:49 |
Felipe Reyes |
bug task added |
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nova (Ubuntu Groovy) |
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| 2021-01-04 18:19:10 |
Felipe Reyes |
libvirt (Ubuntu Groovy): status |
New |
Invalid |
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| 2021-01-05 12:32:12 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
libvirt (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Fix Released |
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| 2021-01-05 12:51:00 |
Launchpad Janitor |
merge proposal linked |
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https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+git/libvirt/+merge/395778 |
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| 2021-01-05 12:53:46 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
libvirt (Ubuntu Focal): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2021-01-05 13:51:08 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug |
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added subscriber Christian Ehrhardt |
| 2021-06-24 14:53:27 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
tags |
libvirt |
libvirt server-next |
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| 2021-06-29 07:26:35 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
description |
In a site upgraded to Ussuri we are getting faults starting instances
2020-11-30 13:41:40.586 232871 ERROR oslo_messaging.rpc.server libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image '/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/xxx' of image '/var/lib/nova/instances/xxx' was not specified in the image metadata (See https://libvirt.org/kbase/backing_chains.html for troubleshooting)
Bug #1864020 reports similar symptoms, where due to an upstream change in Libvirt v6.0.0+ images need the backing format specified.
The fix for Bug #1864020 handles the case for new instances. However, for upgraded instances we're hitting the same problem, as those still don't have backing format specified. |
[Impact]
* New libvirt got more strict in regard to file format specification.
While this is generally the right approach it causes some issues for
upgraders that have old image chains now failing.
* Upstream has added code to relax those checks under a set of conditions
which will allow to go forward with stricter conditions as planned but
at the same time not break/block upgrades.
[Test Plan]
* TBD
[Where problems could occur]
* Of the many things that qemu/libvirt do this changes only the format
probing. So issues (hopefully not) would be expected to appear mostly
around complex scenarios of image files.
We've had a look at image files and image file chains, and so far all
were good. But there are more obscure (and not supported) cases like
image backed by real-disk that might misbehave. But still it would
fix Focal to be the outlier as the past was ok (didn't care) and the
future (relaxed check) and only focal is left broken in between.
[Other Info]
* A lot has changes in that area, but instead of pulling in a vast set
of changes a smaller set was identified to suite the SRU needs. It
was so far found not found regressing anything and OTOH fixed the issue
(tested form PPA) for affected people.
----
In a site upgraded to Ussuri we are getting faults starting instances
2020-11-30 13:41:40.586 232871 ERROR oslo_messaging.rpc.server libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image '/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/xxx' of image '/var/lib/nova/instances/xxx' was not specified in the image metadata (See https://libvirt.org/kbase/backing_chains.html for troubleshooting)
Bug #1864020 reports similar symptoms, where due to an upstream change in Libvirt v6.0.0+ images need the backing format specified.
The fix for Bug #1864020 handles the case for new instances. However, for upgraded instances we're hitting the same problem, as those still don't have backing format specified. |
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| 2021-06-29 07:28:42 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
description |
[Impact]
* New libvirt got more strict in regard to file format specification.
While this is generally the right approach it causes some issues for
upgraders that have old image chains now failing.
* Upstream has added code to relax those checks under a set of conditions
which will allow to go forward with stricter conditions as planned but
at the same time not break/block upgrades.
[Test Plan]
* TBD
[Where problems could occur]
* Of the many things that qemu/libvirt do this changes only the format
probing. So issues (hopefully not) would be expected to appear mostly
around complex scenarios of image files.
We've had a look at image files and image file chains, and so far all
were good. But there are more obscure (and not supported) cases like
image backed by real-disk that might misbehave. But still it would
fix Focal to be the outlier as the past was ok (didn't care) and the
future (relaxed check) and only focal is left broken in between.
[Other Info]
* A lot has changes in that area, but instead of pulling in a vast set
of changes a smaller set was identified to suite the SRU needs. It
was so far found not found regressing anything and OTOH fixed the issue
(tested form PPA) for affected people.
----
In a site upgraded to Ussuri we are getting faults starting instances
2020-11-30 13:41:40.586 232871 ERROR oslo_messaging.rpc.server libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image '/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/xxx' of image '/var/lib/nova/instances/xxx' was not specified in the image metadata (See https://libvirt.org/kbase/backing_chains.html for troubleshooting)
Bug #1864020 reports similar symptoms, where due to an upstream change in Libvirt v6.0.0+ images need the backing format specified.
The fix for Bug #1864020 handles the case for new instances. However, for upgraded instances we're hitting the same problem, as those still don't have backing format specified. |
[Impact]
* New libvirt got more strict in regard to file format specification.
While this is generally the right approach it causes some issues for
upgraders that have old image chains now failing.
* Upstream has added code to relax those checks under a set of conditions
which will allow to go forward with stricter conditions as planned but
at the same time not break/block upgrades.
[Test Plan]
* Thanks to Brett Milford for sharing his test steps for this
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libvirt-daemon-system cloud-image-utils virtinst -y
IMG="focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
IMG_PATH="/var/lib/libvirt/images/base/$IMG"
INSTANCE_NAME=testinst
[ -f $IMG_PATH ] || {
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/libvirt/images/base
sudo wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img \
-O $IMG_PATH
}
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/libvirt/images/$INSTANCE_NAME
sudo qemu-img convert -O raw $IMG_PATH ${IMG_PATH%.*}
sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=${IMG_PATH%.*} /var/lib/libvirt/images/$INSTANCE_NAME/root.img
sudo qemu-img resize /var/lib/libvirt/images/$INSTANCE_NAME/root.img 5G
virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name $INSTANCE_NAME --cpu host --os-type linux --os-variant generic --graphics vnc --console pty,target_type=serial --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$INSTANCE_NAME/root.img,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 --network default,model=virtio --noautoconsole --vcpus 1 --memory 1024 --import
[Where problems could occur]
* Of the many things that qemu/libvirt do this changes only the format
probing. So issues (hopefully not) would be expected to appear mostly
around complex scenarios of image files.
We've had a look at image files and image file chains, and so far all
were good. But there are more obscure (and not supported) cases like
image backed by real-disk that might misbehave. But still it would
fix Focal to be the outlier as the past was ok (didn't care) and the
future (relaxed check) and only focal is left broken in between.
[Other Info]
* A lot has changes in that area, but instead of pulling in a vast set
of changes a smaller set was identified to suite the SRU needs. It
was so far found not found regressing anything and OTOH fixed the issue
(tested form PPA) for affected people.
----
In a site upgraded to Ussuri we are getting faults starting instances
2020-11-30 13:41:40.586 232871 ERROR oslo_messaging.rpc.server libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: format of backing image '/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/xxx' of image '/var/lib/nova/instances/xxx' was not specified in the image metadata (See https://libvirt.org/kbase/backing_chains.html for troubleshooting)
Bug #1864020 reports similar symptoms, where due to an upstream change in Libvirt v6.0.0+ images need the backing format specified.
The fix for Bug #1864020 handles the case for new instances. However, for upgraded instances we're hitting the same problem, as those still don't have backing format specified. |
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| 2021-06-30 14:25:07 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
libvirt (Ubuntu Groovy): status |
Invalid |
Fix Released |
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| 2021-06-30 14:25:10 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
libvirt (Ubuntu Focal): status |
Triaged |
In Progress |
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| 2021-06-30 14:33:52 |
Robie Basak |
libvirt (Ubuntu Focal): status |
In Progress |
Fix Committed |
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| 2021-06-30 14:33:56 |
Robie Basak |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2021-06-30 14:33:59 |
Robie Basak |
bug |
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added subscriber SRU Verification |
| 2021-06-30 14:34:06 |
Robie Basak |
tags |
libvirt server-next |
libvirt server-next verification-needed verification-needed-focal |
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| 2021-07-12 23:44:41 |
Brett Milford |
tags |
libvirt server-next verification-needed verification-needed-focal |
libvirt server-next verification-done-focal verification-needed |
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| 2021-07-13 08:36:11 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
tags |
libvirt server-next verification-done-focal verification-needed |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal |
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| 2021-07-13 08:43:09 |
Brett Milford |
bug task added |
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cloud-archive |
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| 2021-07-13 08:43:39 |
Brett Milford |
nominated for series |
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cloud-archive/ussuri |
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| 2021-07-13 08:43:39 |
Brett Milford |
bug task added |
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cloud-archive/ussuri |
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| 2021-07-13 16:02:32 |
Brian Murray |
removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
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| 2021-07-13 16:18:41 |
Launchpad Janitor |
libvirt (Ubuntu Focal): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2021-07-14 12:14:31 |
Corey Bryant |
cloud-archive/ussuri: status |
New |
Fix Committed |
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| 2021-07-14 12:14:34 |
Corey Bryant |
tags |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal verification-ussuri-needed |
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| 2021-07-28 23:16:17 |
Brian Murray |
nova (Ubuntu Groovy): status |
New |
Won't Fix |
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| 2021-07-31 07:13:13 |
Brett Milford |
tags |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal verification-ussuri-needed |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal verification-ussuri-done |
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| 2021-09-15 15:16:30 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
tags |
libvirt server-next verification-done verification-done-focal verification-ussuri-done |
libvirt verification-done verification-done-focal verification-ussuri-done |
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| 2021-09-24 02:08:44 |
Erwin Dwight Paler |
bug |
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added subscriber SBI BITS |
