Cinder create fails with "ISCSITargetCreateFailed: Failed to create iscsi target"
Issue
- 'Cinder create 1' fails with the following status:
# cinder create 1
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| attachments | [] |
| availability_zone | nova |
| bootable | false |
| created_at | 2013-10-09T04:30:14.290356 |
| display_description | None |
| display_name | None |
| id | d2ef6e9f-631a-40b7-881f-40a2a73a57fe |
| metadata | {} |
| size | 1 |
| snapshot_id | None |
| source_volid | None |
| status | creating |
| volume_type | None |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
- From the logs: (/var/log/cinder/*.log)
2013-10-09 15:30:16 ERROR [cinder.volume.iscsi] Failed to create iscsi target for volume id:volume-d2ef6e9f-631a-40b7-881f-40a2a73a57fe.
2013-10-09 15:30:16 ERROR [cinder.volume.manager] volume volume-d2ef6e9f-631a-40b7-881f-40a2a73a57fe: create failed
2013-10-09 15:30:16 ERROR [cinder.openstack.common.rpc.amqp] Exception during message handling
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py", line 430, in _process_data
rval = self.proxy.dispatch(ctxt, version, method, **args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/openstack/common/rpc/dispatcher.py", line 133, in dispatch
return getattr(proxyobj, method)(ctxt, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/manager.py", line 288, in create_volume
LOG.error(_("volume %s: create failed"), volume_ref['name'])
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/contextlib.py", line 23, in __exit__
self.gen.next()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/manager.py", line 281, in create_volume
model_update = self.driver.create_export(context, volume_ref)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/lvm.py", line 486, in create_export
chap_auth)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/iscsi.py", line 168, in create_iscsi_target
raise exception.ISCSITargetCreateFailed(volume_id=vol_id)
ISCSITargetCreateFailed: Failed to create iscsi target for volume volume-d2ef6e9f-631a-40b7-881f-40a2a73a57fe.
- We also see:
# cinder list
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| ID | Status | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| 1ddb9d38-d7ea-4d50-8b6b-3390a2cc3092 | error | None | 1 | None | false | |
| bbd2852d-3029-4f06-aac1-9faf90445be1 | error | None | 1 | None | false | |
| d2ef6e9f-631a-40b7-881f-40a2a73a57fe | error | None | 1 | None | false | |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0
- iscsi storage
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