Why "packstack --allinone" fails with "Cinder's volume group 'cinder-volumes' could not be created" error message?

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Issue

  • Packstack fails with below error message.
Installing dependencies for Cinder...                  [ DONE ]
Checking if the Cinder server has a cinder-volumes vg...[ ERROR ]

ERROR : Cinder's volume group 'cinder-volumes' could not be created
Please check log file /var/tmp/packstack/20130730-055308-cOjCoi/openstack-setup.log for more information
  • From log file,


2013-07-30 05:53:10::INFO::cinder_250::191::root:: A new cinder volumes group will be created 2013-07-30 05:53:10::ERROR::shell::83::root:: ============= STDERR ========== 2013-07-30 05:53:10::ERROR::shell::85::root:: Warning: Permanently added '10.9.10.43' (RSA) to the list of known hos ts. + trap t ERR + mkdir -p /var/lib/cinder + dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/cinder/cinder-volumes bs=1 count=0 seek=20G 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 8.848e-06 s, 0.0 kB/s ++ losetup --show -f /var/lib/cinder/cinder-volumes + LOFI=/dev/loop0 + pvcreate /dev/loop0 Can't initialize physical volume "/dev/loop0" of volume group "cinder-volumes" without -ff ++ t ++ exit 5 2013-07-30 05:53:11::ERROR::run_setup::889::root:: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 870, in main single_step_aio_install(options) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 658, in single_step_aio_install single_step_install(options) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 688, in single_step_install _main(answerfilepath) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 577, in _main runSequences() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 554, in runSequences controller.runAllSequences() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/setup_controller.py", line 90, in runAllSequences sequence.run(self.CONF) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/core/sequences.py", line 105, in run step.run(config=config) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/core/sequences.py", line 52, in run raise SequenceError(str(ex)) SequenceError: Cinder's volume group 'cinder-volumes' could not be created

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenStack v3.0

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