nova-consoleauth missing from Rocky install guide; unable to use VNC

Bug #1793255 reported by end-user
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OpenStack Compute (nova)
Fix Released
High
Matt Riedemann
Rocky
Fix Committed
High
Matt Riedemann

Bug Description

You gus doesn't maintain the doc well. Waste people lots of time.

openstack-nova-consoleauth should be started, or VNC console won't work.

see https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1792674

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Release: 18.0.1.dev30 on 2018-09-19 04:24
SHA: a936ecb280de74339e3de8ba8a42bd6e9458b7f5
Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/doc/source/install/controller-install-rdo.rst
URL: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/install/controller-install-rdo.html

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Matt Riedemann (mriedem) wrote :

Installing nova-consoleauth was removed from the docs in Rocky as part of this change:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/565367/

Need to talk to melwitt about this.

tags: added: consoleauth doc
Changed in nova:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - Install and configure controller node for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
- CentOS in nova
+ nova-consoleauth missing from Rocky install guide; unable to use VNC
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Matt Riedemann (mriedem) wrote :

Should have been fixed as part of this:

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/4f01f4ff88de571218a36ba7c4e998296a7b52a4

Just need to re-add those docs it looks like, along with a deprecation warning in the install guide.

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to nova (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/605154

Changed in nova:
assignee: nobody → melanie witt (melwitt)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote :

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/605250

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Change abandoned on nova (master)

Change abandoned by melanie witt (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/605154
Reason: We need to do more than this and un-deprecate nova-consoleauth, so the revert is here:

https://review.openstack.org/605250

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Related fix proposed to nova (master)

Related fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/605255

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to nova (stable/rocky)

Fix proposed to branch: stable/rocky
Review: https://review.openstack.org/607038

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Change abandoned on nova (master)

Change abandoned by melanie witt (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/605255
Reason: Instead of un-deprecating, we fixed the code to actually make nova-consoleauth optional:

https://review.openstack.org/607068

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Change abandoned on nova (stable/rocky)

Change abandoned by melanie witt (<email address hidden>) on branch: stable/rocky
Review: https://review.openstack.org/607038
Reason: Instead of un-deprecating, we fixed the code to actually make nova-consoleauth optional:

https://review.openstack.org/607068

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Matt Riedemann (mriedem) wrote :

We continue to get bugs in triage for the rocky install docs not saying that nova-consoleauth should be installed (duplicated to this bug). So I think we need to say *something* in the install guide about the nova-consoleauth service install (which was removed in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/565367/) - maybe it would be as simple as adding a note and linking to the workaround config option for more details:

https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/configuration/config.html#workarounds.enable_consoleauth

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Matt Riedemann (mriedem) wrote :

Also see related bug 1798188. I'm not sure if this should be duplicated against that or not.

Changed in nova:
assignee: melanie witt (melwitt) → Matt Riedemann (mriedem)
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Matt Riedemann (mriedem) wrote :

I have restored https://review.openstack.org/#/c/605154/ and updated it.

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melanie witt (melwitt) wrote :

Since https://review.openstack.org/610673 merged, it should not be required to install nova-consoleauth unless the [workarounds]enable_consoleauth config option has been set to True by the operator.

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to nova (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/605154
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=983e6ea5518dee956d8054cd67dddbe98eab9f78
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit 983e6ea5518dee956d8054cd67dddbe98eab9f78
Author: melanie witt <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 25 17:12:16 2018 +0000

    Restore nova-consoleauth to install docs

    The installation of the nova-consoleauth service was erroneously
    removed from the docs prematurely. The nova-consoleauth service
    is still being used in Rocky, with the removal being possible in
    Stein.

    This should have been fixed as part of change
    Ibbdc7c50c312da2acc59dfe64de95a519f87f123 but was missed.

    This is also related to the release note update in Rocky
    under change Ie637b4871df8b870193b5bc07eece15c03860c06.

    Co-Authored-By: Matt Riedemann <email address hidden>

    Closes-Bug: #1793255
    Related-Bug: #1798188

    Change-Id: Ied268da9e70bd2807c2dfe7a479181fbec52979d

Changed in nova:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to nova (stable/rocky)

Fix proposed to branch: stable/rocky
Review: https://review.openstack.org/630997

Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to nova (stable/rocky)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/630997
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=7a0203c9ad1b10596f5de0d0954ee3ccb356d685
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: stable/rocky

commit 7a0203c9ad1b10596f5de0d0954ee3ccb356d685
Author: melanie witt <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 25 17:12:16 2018 +0000

    Restore nova-consoleauth to install docs

    The installation of the nova-consoleauth service was erroneously
    removed from the docs prematurely. The nova-consoleauth service
    is still being used in Rocky, with the removal being possible in
    Stein.

    This should have been fixed as part of change
    Ibbdc7c50c312da2acc59dfe64de95a519f87f123 but was missed.

    This is also related to the release note update in Rocky
    under change Ie637b4871df8b870193b5bc07eece15c03860c06.

    Co-Authored-By: Matt Riedemann <email address hidden>

    Closes-Bug: #1793255
    Related-Bug: #1798188

    Change-Id: Ied268da9e70bd2807c2dfe7a479181fbec52979d
    (cherry picked from commit 983e6ea5518dee956d8054cd67dddbe98eab9f78)

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix included in openstack/nova 19.0.0.0rc1

This issue was fixed in the openstack/nova 19.0.0.0rc1 release candidate.

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix included in openstack/nova 18.2.0

This issue was fixed in the openstack/nova 18.2.0 release.

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