Not able to start any of the nova services.

Asked by neha rawat

 The following message is appearing in /var/log/upstart /nova-compute, /var/log/upstart /nova-api, /var/log/upstart /nova-network etc ( All nova services).

IOError: [Error 13] Permission Denied : '/etc/nova/nova.conf',
Exception Key error: keyerror (1399975385115120), in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored

have set following permission for /etc/nova/nova.conf file -

-rw-r--r-- 1 root nova 794 May 29 11:35 /etc/nova/nova.conf

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
OpenStack Compute (nova) Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
neha rawat
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Joe T (joe-topjian-v) said :
#1

Hello,

What are the permissions of your /etc/nova directory?

ls -ld /etc/nova

For reference, mine are:

drwx------ 2 nova nova 4096 May 18 15:36 /etc/nova

ls -l /etc/nova/nova.conf:

-rw-r----- 1 nova nova 982 May 28 13:17 nova.conf

Thanks,
Joe

Revision history for this message
neha rawat (neha86rawat) said :
#2

Thanks Joe for your help.

Now its working after setting the permissions of /etc/nova directory.

Thanks,
Neha