OpenStack Part 8: Upgrade and failures

When I started with my OpenStack try-out I made a crucial error with my choice of operating system. I chose to begin with installing Ubuntu 16.04, as I was unaware that the version of OpenStack would be strongly tied to the version of the underlying operating system; and at time, the version supported for Ubuntu 16.04 was still in development. Instead of stepping back to an earlier version of Ubuntu, I soldiered on…

Last september the official release of OpenStack Newton was released for Ubuntu 16.04, and I decided to go for the upgrade. A few quick “apt-get update/upgrade” commands later, nothing worked anymore 🙁

Interfaces and options became deprecated or mismatched and has to be painstakingly found and corrected. It took me months of effort, a couple of hours here and there whenever I found the courage, to dig through all the configuration files again and located the few errors.

In the end I managed to get it back to the situation before the upgrade: Invalid Block Device. It took me a while, but I found the error in the cinder.conf configuration file: the options that points to the LVM configuration file was wrong. By default it points to /etc/cinder/lvm.conf, while the ubuntu default location for that file would be /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.

Next failure to figure out, when trying to create a VM instance, I get the “No valid host was found. There are not enough hosts available”. As far as I can tell from the logs it appears to be caused by an issue in the networking subsystem, it seems to claim that it can’t create a port. I’m stuck at this point, and I will probably need to post some question on the OpenStack support forum…

TO BE CONTINUED…

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