The incomplete patch set applied to python-eventlet causes nova to frequently log AssertionError exceptions. 12.04 is the development platform for the current development release of Openstack, and will likely continue to be for a number of future releases. For developers, these messages pollutes debug logs, test suite runs, etc.
*** Development Fix ***
The issue has been fixed upstream since March, in Debian since March, and in Ubuntu 12.10 since May.
Observe numerous "Exception AssertionError: AssertionError()..." messages logged to stderr during the lifetime of the process, as well as 'KeyError' exception on process exit.
*** Impact ***
The incomplete patch set applied to python-eventlet causes nova to frequently log AssertionError exceptions. 12.04 is the development platform for the current development release of Openstack, and will likely continue to be for a number of future releases. For developers, these messages pollutes debug logs, test suite runs, etc.
*** Development Fix ***
The issue has been fixed upstream since March, in Debian since March, and in Ubuntu 12.10 since May.
*** Test Case ***
sudo apt-get -y install nova-api
sudo service nova-api stop
sudo nova-api
Observe numerous "Exception AssertionError: AssertionError( )..." messages logged to stderr during the lifetime of the process, as well as 'KeyError' exception on process exit.
*** Regression Potential ***
Minimal