[Rdo-list] consoleauth package?

[Nikola Đipanov]

On 06/06/13 14:55, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 12:54 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> On 06.06.2013 03:29, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 06/06/2013 01:20 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to get the console tab in horizon working but right now I only see "loading..." which times out after a while. According to the documentation novncproxy needs the consoleauth service and I found various pages on the web describing the installation of the openstack-nova-consoleauth rpm yet this doesn't seem to be available in the RDO repo.
>>>> Is this no longer required or is it now part of another package?
>>>
>>> $ repoquery --file /usr/bin/nova-consoleauth
>>> openstack-nova-console
>>
>> Ah, I wasn't paying attention to that package because the documentation describes nova-console as XenAPI specific and not to be confused with the separate nova-consoleauth. Thanks for the pointer.
>>
>> I now get the "shell" in the console tab but the vnc console itself doesn't work. What I found in the debug log is this:
>>
>> 2013-06-06 13:32:55.122 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-fba2d928-0c8b-4584-815a-17779cd96e2e None None] Making synchronous call on conductor ... multicall /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:583
>>
>> This call then times out after a while.
>>
>> The issue is that I disabled the conductor in nova.conf:
>> ...
>> [conductor]
>> use_local=true
>> ...
>>
>> I followed this page: http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.de/2013/04/understanding-nova-conductor-in.html
>>
>> So I'm not sure why vnc still tries to contact the conductor. Is the conductor service now a hard requirement for novncproxy?
> 
> What might be happening here is that we're using novncproxy from
> the "novnc" project rather than "nova", and things might have
> gotten a little out of sync.
> 
> Nikola do you know about this specific case,
> or a way to quickly test the "nova" version of novncproxy?
> 

Hey,

I took a look at the code - and the situation is like this:

* We do ship a slightly outdated nova-novncproxy service that what is
currently in the stable grizzly branch but the changes are purely
cosmetic (moving code around, no functional changes).

* Both versions will try to use rpc only to talk to the consoleauth
service and *never* try to talk to the conductor, so I am pretty sure
that the multicall in the logs is not from the openstack-nova-novncproxy
service (it should log to /var/log/nova/novncproxy.log - maybe try
checking there if you haven't been already).

I would guess that some answers could be found in the log file mentioned
above. Alternatively make sure that the nova-consoleauth service is
up-and-running as novncproxy will need to check creds with it.

Let me know if any of this helped.

Thanks,

Nikola

> thanks,
> Pádraig.
>