I just received this email from John and applied what he suggested and it worked. He's right, packstack is using keystone v2 while heat try to use keystone v3. Well, for those of you running through the same problem , here is a hint on how to solve it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Haller, John H (John) <john.haller(a)alcatel-lucent.com&gt; Date: 2015-05-07 15:56 GMT+02:00 Subject: RE: [Rdo-list] [heat]: stack stays interminably under the status create in progress To: ICHIBA Sara <ichi.sara(a)gmail.com&gt; We had a problem using waitcondition, and it turned out that Keystone V3 was not completely enabled. Not sure if this will help your problem or not, but give it a try. If it does solve it, I’m guessing there is some missing configuration in packstack, and feel free to pass this on to the list. $ heat-keystone-setup-domain \ --stack-user-domain-name heat_user_domain \ --stack-domain-admin heat_domain_admin \ --stack-domain-admin-password heat_domain_password Please update your heat.conf with the following in [DEFAULT] stack_user_domain_id=UUID of heat_user_domain stack_domain_admin=heat_domain_admin stack_domain_admin_password=heat_domain_password Restart the Heat API service and Heat engine service Regards, John Haller Alcatel-Lucent Naperville, Illinois 60563 *From:* rdo-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:rdo-list-bounces@redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *ICHIBA Sara *Sent:* Thursday, May 07, 2015 7:41 AM *To:* Steven Hardy; rdo-list(a)redhat.com *Subject:* Re: [Rdo-list] [heat]: stack stays interminably under the status create in progress I found this https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1405110 . Apparently i'm not the only one to have this problem 2015-05-07 14:26 GMT+02:00 ICHIBA Sara <ichi.sara(a)gmail.com&gt;: 2015-05-07 14:08 GMT+02:00 ICHIBA Sara <ichi.sara(a)gmail.com&gt;: Actually, Nova is working I just spawned a VM with the same flavor and image. and when I try to do the same with heat it fails. below some logs: nova-compute.log 2015-05-07 13:58:56.208 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.manager [req-b57bfc38-9d77-48fc-8185-474d1f9076a6 None] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Starting instance... 2015-05-07 13:58:56.376 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Attempting claim: memory 512 MB, disk 1 GB 2015-05-07 13:58:56.376 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Total memory: 3791 MB, used: 512.00 MB 2015-05-07 13:58:56.377 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] memory limit: 5686.50 MB, free: 5174.50 MB 2015-05-07 13:58:56.377 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Total disk: 13 GB, used: 0.00 GB 2015-05-07 13:58:56.378 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] disk limit not specified, defaulting to unlimited 2015-05-07 13:58:56.395 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.claims [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Claim successful 2015-05-07 13:58:56.590 3928 INFO nova.scheduler.client.report [-] Compute_service record updated for ('localhost.localdomain', 'localhost.localdomain') 2015-05-07 13:58:56.787 3928 INFO nova.scheduler.client.report [-] Compute_service record updated for ('localhost.localdomain', 'localhost.localdomain') 2015-05-07 13:58:57.269 3928 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Creating image 2015-05-07 13:59:27.642 3928 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [-] Connecting to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 13:59:27.661 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Auditing locally available compute resources 2015-05-07 13:59:27.702 3928 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [-] Connected to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 13:59:27.800 3928 INFO nova.scheduler.client.report [-] Compute_service record updated for ('localhost.localdomain', 'localhost.localdomain') 2015-05-07 13:59:28.066 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Total physical ram (MB): 3791, total allocated virtual ram (MB): 1024 2015-05-07 13:59:28.066 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Free disk (GB): 12 2015-05-07 13:59:28.067 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Total usable vcpus: 4, total allocated vcpus: 0 2015-05-07 13:59:28.067 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] PCI stats: [] 2015-05-07 13:59:28.101 3928 INFO nova.scheduler.client.report [-] Compute_service record updated for ('localhost.localdomain', 'localhost.localdomain') 2015-05-07 13:59:28.101 3928 INFO nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Compute_service record updated for localhost.localdomain:localhost.localdomain 2015-05-07 13:59:47.110 3928 WARNING nova.virt.disk.vfs.guestfs [-] Failed to close augeas aug_close: do_aug_close: you must call 'aug-init' first to initialize Augeas 2015-05-07 13:59:51.364 3928 INFO nova.compute.manager [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] VM Started (Lifecycle Event) 2015-05-07 13:59:51.384 3928 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver [-] [instance: 399c6150-2877-4c5f-865f-c7ac4c5c7ed5] Instance spawned successfully. 2015-05-07 14:00:28.264 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Auditing locally available compute resources 2015-05-07 14:00:29.007 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Total physical ram (MB): 3791, total allocated virtual ram (MB): 1024 2015-05-07 14:00:29.008 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Free disk (GB): 12 2015-05-07 14:00:29.009 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Total usable vcpus: 4, total allocated vcpus: 1 2015-05-07 14:00:29.009 3928 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] PCI stats: [] 2015-05-07 14:00:29.048 3928 INFO nova.scheduler.client.report [-] Compute_service record updated for ('localhost.localdomain', 'localhost.localdomain') 2015-05-07 14:00:29.048 3928 INFO nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Compute_service record updated for localhost.localdomain:localhost.localdomain heat-engine.log 2015-05-07 14:02:45.177 3942 INFO heat.engine.service [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] Creating stack my_first_stack 2015-05-07 14:02:45.194 3942 DEBUG stevedore.extension [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] found extension EntryPoint.parse('AWSTemplateFormatVersion.2010-09-09 = heat.engine.cfn.template:CfnTemplate') _load_plugins /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stevedore/extension.py:156 2015-05-07 14:02:45.194 3942 DEBUG stevedore.extension [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] found extension EntryPoint.parse('heat_template_version.2013-05-23 = heat.engine.hot.template:HOTemplate20130523') _load_plugins /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stevedore/extension.py:156 2015-05-07 14:02:45.195 3942 DEBUG stevedore.extension [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] found extension EntryPoint.parse('HeatTemplateFormatVersion.2012-12-12 = heat.engine.cfn.template:HeatTemplate') _load_plugins /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stevedore/extension.py:156 2015-05-07 14:02:45.195 3942 DEBUG stevedore.extension [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] found extension EntryPoint.parse('heat_template_version.2014-10-16 = heat.engine.hot.template:HOTemplate20141016') _load_plugins /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stevedore/extension.py:156 2015-05-07 14:02:45.224 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.parameter_groups [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] <heat.engine.hot.template.HOTemplate20130523 object at 0x38d05d0> __init__ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/parameter_groups.py:31 2015-05-07 14:02:45.225 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.parameter_groups [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] <heat.engine.hot.parameters.HOTParameters object at 0x3a695d0> __init__ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/parameter_groups.py:32 2015-05-07 14:02:45.225 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.parameter_groups [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] Validating Parameter Groups. validate /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/parameter_groups.py:43 2015-05-07 14:02:45.226 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.parameter_groups [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] ['OS::stack_id'] validate /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/parameter_groups.py:44 2015-05-07 14:02:45.233 3942 INFO heat.engine.resource [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] Validating Server "my_instance" 2015-05-07 14:02:45.385 3942 DEBUG heat.common.keystoneclient [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 None] Using stack domain 9ce7896d79914b68aef34d397fd3fde4 __init__ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/common/heat_keystoneclient.py:115 2015-05-07 14:02:45.405 3942 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.5.33 2015-05-07 14:02:45.448 3942 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] "GET /v2/fac261cd98974411a9b2e977cd9ec876/os-keypairs/userkey HTTP/1.1" 200 674 _make_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:357 2015-05-07 14:02:45.486 3942 DEBUG glanceclient.common.http [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] curl -i -X GET -H 'User-Agent: python-glanceclient' -H 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'X-Auth-Token: {SHA1}bc08e056cd78f34e9ada3dd99ceae37d33daf3f0' http://192.168.5.33:9292/v1/images/detail?limit=20&name=cirros log_curl_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/glanceclient/common/http.py:122 2015-05-07 14:02:45.488 3942 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.5.33 2015-05-07 14:02:45.770 3942 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] "GET /v1/images/detail?limit=20&name=cirros HTTP/1.1" 200 481 _make_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:357 2015-05-07 14:02:45.771 3942 DEBUG glanceclient.common.http [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] HTTP/1.1 200 OK date: Thu, 07 May 2015 12:02:45 GMT content-length: 481 content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 x-openstack-request-id: req-c62b407b-0d8f-43c6-a8be-df02015dc846 {"images": [{"status": "active", "deleted_at": null, "name": "cirros", "deleted": false, "container_format": "bare", "created_at": "2015-05-06T14:27:54", "disk_format": "qcow2", "updated_at": "2015-05-06T15:01:15", "min_disk": 0, "protected": false, "id": "d80b5a24-2567-438f-89f8-b381a6716887", "min_ram": 0, "checksum": "133eae9fb1c98f45894a4e60d8736619", "owner": "3740df0f18754509a252738385d375b9", "is_public": true, "virtual_size": null, "properties": {}, "size": 13200896}]} log_http_response /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/glanceclient/common/http.py:135 2015-05-07 14:02:46.049 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.auth.identity.v3 [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] Making authentication request to http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/auth/tokens get_auth_ref /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/auth/identity/v3.py:117 2015-05-07 14:02:46.052 3942 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.5.33 2015-05-07 14:02:46.247 3942 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] "POST /v3/auth/tokens HTTP/1.1" 201 8275 _make_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:357 2015-05-07 14:02:46.250 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.session [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] REQ: curl -i -X POST http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/OS-TRUST/trusts -H "User-Agent: python-keystoneclient" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: TOKEN_REDACTED" -d '{"trust": {"impersonation": true, "project_id": "fac261cd98974411a9b2e977cd9ec876", "trustor_user_id": "24f6dac3f1444d89884c1b1977bb0d87", "roles": [{"name": "heat_stack_owner"}], "trustee_user_id": "4f7e2e76441e483982fb863ed02fe63e"}}' _http_log_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/session.py:155 2015-05-07 14:02:46.252 3942 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.5.33 2015-05-07 14:02:46.381 3942 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] "POST /v3/OS-TRUST/trusts HTTP/1.1" 201 717 _make_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:357 2015-05-07 14:02:46.383 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.session [req-6b9bcd97-7a13-4bc3-984c-470e6f5949b9 ] RESP: [201] {'content-length': '717', 'vary': 'X-Auth-Token', 'server': 'Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)', 'connection': 'close', 'date': 'Thu, 07 May 2015 12:02:46 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/json'} RESP BODY: {"trust": {"impersonation": true, "roles_links": {"self": " http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/OS-TRUST/trusts/96e0e32b7c504d3f8f9b82fcc265...;, "previous": null, "next": null}, "deleted_at": null, "trustor_user_id": "24f6dac3f1444d89884c1b1977bb0d87", "links": {"self": " http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/OS-TRUST/trusts/96e0e32b7c504d3f8f9b82fcc265..., "roles": [{"id": "cf346090e5a042ebac674bcfe14f4076", "links": {"self": " http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/roles/cf346090e5a042ebac674bcfe14f4076"}, "name": "heat_stack_owner"}], "remaining_uses": null, "expires_at": null, "trustee_user_id": "4f7e2e76441e483982fb863ed02fe63e", "project_id": "fac261cd98974411a9b2e977cd9ec876", "id": "96e0e32b7c504d3f8f9b82fcc2658e5f"}} _http_log_response /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/session.py:182 2015-05-07 14:02:46.454 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.stack_lock [-] Engine b3d3b0e1-5c47-4912-94e9-1b75159b9b10 acquired lock on stack bb7d16c4-b73f-428d-9dbd-5b089748f374 acquire /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/stack_lock.py:72 2015-05-07 14:02:46.456 3942 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [-] Connecting to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 14:02:46.474 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.auth.identity.v3 [-] Making authentication request to http://192.168.5.33:35357/v3/auth/tokens get_auth_ref /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/auth/identity/v3.py:117 2015-05-07 14:02:46.477 3942 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [-] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.5.33 2015-05-07 14:02:46.481 3942 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [-] Connected to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 14:02:46.666 3942 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool [-] "POST /v3/auth/tokens HTTP/1.1" 401 114 _make_request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:357 2015-05-07 14:02:46.668 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.session [-] Request returned failure status: 401 request /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/session.py:345 2015-05-07 14:02:46.668 3942 DEBUG keystoneclient.v3.client [-] Authorization failed. get_raw_token_from_identity_service /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/v3/client.py:267 2015-05-07 14:02:46.673 3942 DEBUG heat.engine.stack_lock [-] Engine b3d3b0e1-5c47-4912-94e9-1b75159b9b10 released lock on stack bb7d16c4-b73f-428d-9dbd-5b089748f374 release /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/stack_lock.py:122 2015-05-07 14:03:33.623 3942 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [req-18ad2c0b-ab52-4793-99a5-255a010d83fe ] Connecting to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 14:03:33.645 3942 INFO oslo.messaging._drivers.impl_rabbit [req-18ad2c0b-ab52-4793-99a5-255a010d83fe ] Connected to AMQP server on 192.168.5.33:5672 2015-05-07 11:45 GMT+02:00 Steven Hardy <shardy(a)redhat.com&gt;: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:18:17PM +0200, ICHIBA Sara wrote: These logs are a little confusing - it looks like you failed to create the stack due to some validation errors, then tried again and did a stack-check and a stack resume? Can you please set debug = True in the [DEFAULT] section of your heat.conf, restart heat-engine and try again please? Also, some basic checks are: 1. When the stack is CREATE_IN_PROGRESS, what does nova list show for the instance? 2. Is it possible to boot an instance using nova boot, using the same arguments (image, flavor, key etc) that you specify in the heat template? I suspect that Heat is not actually the problem here, and that some part of Nova is either misconfigured or not running, but I can't prove that without seeing the nova CLI output and/or the nova logs. Steve