Spice html5 client does not get installed in nova api

[Flavio Picci]

Hello everyone,

when selecting spice as `nova_console_type`, the spice html5 client does not get installed, thus the `nova-spicehtml5proxy` fails to start and the console is unavaliable.

It seems that the spice-html5 package that is no longer available for CentOS 8 but, to overcome this, it is enough to download the client source from the official repository (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-html5) and unpack it under `/usr/share/spice-html5`.

As a workaround I did
sv=0.3.0
curl -s https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-html5/-/archive/spice-html5-$sv/spice-html5-spice-html5-$sv.tar.gz | tar -xzf -
mv spice-html5-spice-html5-$sv /usr/share/spice-html5

Environment:
OSA: stable/victoria
OS: CentOS 8

Thanks,
Flavio

[Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk)]

Hi!

Can you kindly mention if that is installation with distro packages? As for source install we do install spice from git with these tasks https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/src/branch/master/tasks/consoles/nova_console_spice_install.yml#L16-L61

[Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk)]

Eventually I do see package openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy present for centos 8 here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/cloud/x86_64/openstack-victoria/Packages/o/

Can you check if it's really installed for your deployment and if it's available in rdo repo for you?

[Flavio Picci (flaviopicci)]

Hello Dmitriy,

yes I performed the distro installation, not source. The package you mention installs just the proxy, not the HTML5 client (that it is installed in my Nova API container).

In CentOS 7 EPEL repo they used to have the package for the spice web client (https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/spice-html5-0.1.7-1.el7.noarch.rpm.html) but there is not such package for CentOS 8 (I don't know about Debian distributions).

I think the spice html5 client should be installed from git even when doing the distro installation like it is done in the source installation, at least for CentOS 8.

Flavio

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/+/786447

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/+/786447
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/commit/101f5d5b1790eebd8caae6acab2ecf6671ac046f
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 101f5d5b1790eebd8caae6acab2ecf6671ac046f
Author: Dmitriy Rabotyagov <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 15 17:17:04 2021 +0300

    Install spice-html5 from source for RedHat

    CentOS used to have spice-html5 package in epel, but it's not the case
    for CentOS 8 or Stream. Thus, we need to install SPICE from git repo
    even for distro installs.

    Change-Id: If435ba24dbdf12450cead70e0e1eaecc50f46470
    Closes-Bug: #1923183

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/victoria
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/+/786903

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/+/786903
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/commit/82e24bf17b68d776cb350fce22e86f96e910fbef
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: stable/victoria

commit 82e24bf17b68d776cb350fce22e86f96e910fbef
Author: Dmitriy Rabotyagov <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 15 17:17:04 2021 +0300

    Install spice-html5 from source for RedHat

    CentOS used to have spice-html5 package in epel, but it's not the case
    for CentOS 8 or Stream. Thus, we need to install SPICE from git repo
    even for distro installs.

    Change-Id: If435ba24dbdf12450cead70e0e1eaecc50f46470
    Closes-Bug: #1923183
    (cherry picked from commit 101f5d5b1790eebd8caae6acab2ecf6671ac046f)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova yoga-eom release.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova victoria-eom release.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova wallaby-eom release.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova xena-eom release.