Description of problem: After a snapshot attempted failed (due to bug 888455 in python-glanceclient), the instance in nova was left in a bad state. The task_state was stuck in 'image_snapshot'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-novaclient-2.10.0-1.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-common-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-compute-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-scheduler-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-novncproxy-0.4-2.el6.noarch python-nova-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-console-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-api-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-volume-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-cert-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-network-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-nova-objectstore-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch openstack-glance-2012.2.1-1.el6ost.noarch python-glance-2012.2.1-1.el6ost.noarch python-glanceclient-0.5.1-1.el6.noarch How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce / Results: # nova image-create 7cdab80a-286b-4bab-be94-ad35ae481b7f "El Niño" ERROR: The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation. (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-76ff5c85-37a2-4cd9-bfc6-5e334cee6656) ... wait a long time ... [root@rhel ~(keystone_username)]# nova image-create 7cdab80a-286b-4bab-be94-ad35ae481b7f "snapshot 1" ERROR: Cannot 'createImage' while instance is in task_state image_snapshot (HTTP 409) (Request-ID: req-34aaea9e-6528-4cf1-b6ba-aebd41186f95)
I am closing this as a duplicate of the bug 902293. The fix has been released and is in the latest build (at the time of this writing that is openstack-nova-2012.2.3-1.el6ost) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 902293 ***