Description of problem:
I wanted to delete a stack, which was in CREATE_FAILED due to bad configuration of network isolation (we attempted to deploy without vlans, only by overloading IPs on the same interface, but os-config doesn't support that). 

So I started with stack-delete and got a DELETE_FAILED (that happens almost every time even when deleting perfectly healthy stacks). I ran "nova list" to see if any nodes are in error - and indeed one node was in error state (the other 3 nodes were still in ACTIVE state). I deleted the error node with "nova delete" and ran stack-delete again.

The 2nd stack-delete also failed and "nova list" still showed the remaining nodes in ACTIVE. To find out which resource is in error and preventing the stack from deleting I tried "heat resource-list" - and if complained that the stack is not found!

I tried to list the resources of the stack several times, using the stack name and also trying with the stack's uuid - but when doing resource-list the stack is not found. So I tried it with --debug and got:


[stack@puma01 ~]$ heat --debug resource-list overcloud
DEBUG (session) REQ: curl -g -i -X GET http://192.0.2.1:5000/v2.0 -H "Accept: application/json" -H "User-Agent: python-keystoneclient"
INFO (connectionpool) Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.0.2.1
DEBUG (connectionpool) "GET /v2.0 HTTP/1.1" 200 335
DEBUG (session) RESP: [200] content-length: 335 vary: X-Auth-Token connection: keep-alive date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 06:22:50 GMT content-type: application/json x-openstack-request-id: req-dd84bdd4-d189-4ed9-9a62-dcb3a85d8b63 
RESP BODY: {"version": {"status": "stable", "updated": "2014-04-17T00:00:00Z", "media-types": [{"base": "application/json", "type": "application/vnd.openstack.identity-v2.0+json"}], "id": "v2.0", "links": [{"href": "http://192.0.2.1:5000/v2.0/", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://docs.openstack.org/", "type": "text/html", "rel": "describedby"}]}}

DEBUG (v2) Making authentication request to http://192.0.2.1:5000/v2.0/tokens
DEBUG (connectionpool) "POST /v2.0/tokens HTTP/1.1" 200 3493
DEBUG (session) REQ: curl -g -i -X GET http://192.0.2.1:8004/v1/97cdf91392364c69b473b4d2c63f971b/stacks/overcloud/resources -H "User-Agent: python-heatclient" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Url: http://192.0.2.1:5000/v2.0" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: {SHA1}afe9cc4604b09047df055dceffddb07c1c5ad2c1"
INFO (connectionpool) Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.0.2.1
DEBUG (connectionpool) "GET /v1/97cdf91392364c69b473b4d2c63f971b/stacks/overcloud/resources HTTP/1.1" 302 201
DEBUG (session) RESP: [302] content-length: 201 connection: keep-alive location: http://192.0.2.1:8004/v1/97cdf91392364c69b473b4d2c63f971b/stacks/overcloud/4c5abe97-c4fe-4ed7-b963-7877b1974f06/resources date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 06:22:50 GMT content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 x-openstack-request-id: req-6fb352b5-4f90-45fe-899c-6591d444bbcf 
RESP BODY: 302 Found

The resource was found at http://192.0.2.1:8004/v1/97cdf91392364c69b473b4d2c63f971b/stacks/overcloud/4c5abe97-c4fe-4ed7-b963-7877b1974f06/resources; you should be redirected automatically.  

DEBUG (connectionpool) "GET /v1/97cdf91392364c69b473b4d2c63f971b/stacks/overcloud/4c5abe97-c4fe-4ed7-b963-7877b1974f06/resources HTTP/1.1" 404 970
DEBUG (session) RESP:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/heat", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heatclient/shell.py", line 705, in main
    HeatShell().main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heatclient/shell.py", line 655, in main
    args.func(client, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heatclient/v1/shell.py", line 719, in do_resource_list
    raise exc.CommandError(_('Stack not found: %s') % args.id)
heatclient.exc.CommandError: Stack not found: overcloud


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openstack-heat-api-2015.1.0-4.el7ost.noarch
openstack-heat-templates-0-0.6.20150605git.el7ost.noarch
openstack-heat-common-2015.1.0-4.el7ost.noarch
python-heatclient-0.6.0-1.el7ost.noarch
openstack-heat-engine-2015.1.0-4.el7ost.noarch
openstack-heat-api-cfn-2015.1.0-4.el7ost.noarch
openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.6-35.el7ost.noarch
openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-2015.1.0-4.el7ost.noarch


How reproducible:
may never be reproduced again :(


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete a stack. If it fails - delete the error nodes from nova and try the stack-delete again. If it fails again - see if you see resources in error when you run resource-list.


Actual results:
The stack is not found when you run resource-list, but still exists (in DELETE_FAILED state) when you run stack-list.


Expected results:
When I delete a stack it should get deleted without me having to help it resource-by-resource.