Why does Instance reboot fail with 'Failed to terminate process with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy' ?
Issue
- Instance reboot fails with the following error :
1e774a3e-746d-4153-83ea-a22443adb95c | grep fault
| fault | {"message": "Failed to terminate process 108082 with SIGKILL: Device or resource busy", "code": 500, "details": " File
\"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/
\", line 290, in decorated_function
- The instance qemu-kvm process goes to defunct state & instance remains in error state on dashboard .
Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 on RHEL 7
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