Description of problem: When creating a VM it fails with the below error +++ BuildAbortException: Build of instance 18a918d5-21d3-4afc-92b7-45cae80f7f12 aborted: Failed to allocate the network(s), not rescheduling.\n +++ If we check the openvswitch-agent.log logs on the compute node, we can see the below traceback +++ 2022-08-26 15:34:09.517 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.openflow.native.ofswitch [req-25194123-8cb4-454f-a83e-51301c48806f - - - - -] Switch connection timeout: RuntimeError: Switch con nection timeout 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent [req-25194123-8cb4-454f-a83e-51301c48806f - - - - -] Error while processing VIF ports: RuntimeError: Switch con nection timeout 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent Traceback (most recent call last): 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/ovs_neutron_agent.py", l ine 2418, in rpc_loop 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent port_info, provisioning_needed) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osprofiler/profiler.py", line 158, in wrapper 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent result = f(*args, **kwargs) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/ovs_neutron_agent.py", l ine 1875, in process_network_ports 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent port_info['removed']) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osprofiler/profiler.py", line 158, in wrapper 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent result = f(*args, **kwargs) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/ovs_neutron_agent.py", l ine 1786, in treat_devices_removed 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent self.port_unbound(device) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osprofiler/profiler.py", line 158, in wrapper 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent result = f(*args, **kwargs) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/ovs_neutron_agent.py", line 1095, in port_unbound 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent self.reclaim_local_vlan(net_uuid) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osprofiler/profiler.py", line 158, in wrapper 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent result = f(*args, **kwargs) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/ovs_neutron_agent.py", line 843, in reclaim_local_vlan 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent lvid=lvm.vlan) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/openflow/native/br_phys.py", line 56, in reclaim_local_vlan 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent (_dp, ofp, ofpp) = self._get_dp() 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/openflow/native/ovs_bridge.py", line 69, in _get_dp 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent self._cached_dpid = new_dpid 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 220, in __exit__ 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent self.force_reraise() 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_utils/excutils.py", line 196, in force_reraise 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/openflow/native/ovs_bridge.py", line 52, in _get_dp 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent dp = self._get_dp_by_dpid(self._cached_dpid) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/agent/openflow/native/ofswitch.py", line 69, in _get_dp_by_dpid 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent raise RuntimeError(m) 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent RuntimeError: Switch connection timeout 2022-08-26 15:34:09.518 35318 ERROR neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent +++ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat OpenStack Platform release 13.0.16 (Queens) Actual results: VM creation fails Expected results: VM should build successfully
You are using native python interfaces to connect to the ovsdb and to configure OpenFlows in the ovs. We know that in python 2.7 those native interface aren't working well with eventlet and because of that we recommend to change it to the older ovs-vsctl and ofctl interfaces. To do that please set in the neutron-openvswitch-agent's config two options: [ovs] of_interface = ovs-ofctl ovsdb_interface = vsctl After that please restart the neutron-openvswitch-agent. If there will be still same timeouts after those changes, please provide us new sosreports with DEBUG log enabled in the neutron-openvswitch-agent and nova-compute.