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Exception during the installation of Nova Essex-rc4 on Ubuntu 12.04

Bug #974256 reported by Philippe Berthault
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Bug Description

Nova Essex RC-4 can't be installed on Ubuntu 12.04 using apt-get because of an exception on the installation of the nova-common package.

The exception is:
  CRITICAL nova [-] (OperationalError) duplicate column name: flavorid_str '\n
  ALTER TABLE instance_types ADD flavorid_str VARCHAR(255)' ()

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Is this an upgrade or a new installation?

Regards
chuck

Changed in nova:
status: New → Incomplete
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
affects: nova → ubuntu
affects: ubuntu → nova (Ubuntu)
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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Can you please attach your /var/log/nova/nova-manage.log as well?

Thanks
chuck

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Philippe Berthault (philippe-berthault-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The installation of OpenStack is from scratch but Ubuntu has been upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04.

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Philippe Berthault (philippe-berthault-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

For information, there is also another error:

The "apt-get install nova-common" command stops on the message:
DEBUG nova.utils [-] backend <module 'nova.db.sqlalchemy.migration' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/migration.pyc'> from (pid=21474) __get_backend /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/utils.py:658

In another shell window, I see by using ps that the "apt-get install" command is waiting indefinitely on the "nova-manage db sync" command. So I kill the "nova-manage" command and retry the apt-get install.

Perhaps the "nova-manage db sync" command takes very, very long time and I'am not quite patient.

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Philippe Berthault (philippe-berthault-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I've retried the installation and waits.

The "nova-manage db sync" command called during the installation of the nova-common package completes after 10 minutes which is a very long time for my opinion.

Could you explain why it is so long ?

James Page (james-page)
Changed in nova (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

Hi Philippe

nova-manage db sync is normally pretty fast on a fresh installation so this is quite unusual.

What type of database are you using with nova? Unless you specify it will use sqlite (file created in /var/lib/nova).

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Philippe Berthault (philippe-berthault-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I'm using a MySQL database but when you install OpenStack with apt-get, of course at this moment, you can't configure OpenStack; so the nova-manage db sync command called by apt-get creates a SQLite database. It's after the installation you can change the database from SQLite to MySQL in the nova configuration.

I can't retry the installation to see if the problem still exists because OpenStack is now used by several users on our site.
So you can close this problem.

Regards.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nova (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nova (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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