This bug should not have been closed for neutron. The performance argument is weak because this code is only called during interface creation. The trade-off for a tiny bit of performance in infrequent code for neutron completely breaking in some environments is unacceptable IMO. This already wasted an afternoon on my part any I'm relatively familiar with the neutron code. This would be nearly impossible to debug for a deployer.
** Changed in: neutron Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to neutron. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311804 Title: ip netns list starts without root_helper Status in Fuel: OpenStack installer that works: Invalid Status in Fuel for OpenStack 4.1.x series: Invalid Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service): In Progress Bug description: CENTOS 6.5 Reproduced on typical Openstack installation in any segmentation type with one L3-agent. In ip_lib in IpNetnsComand losted root_helper. Without it L3 agent can't create interfaces inside network namespace, because in Centos 'ip netns list' returns empty list if start without root privileges. [root@node-2 ~]# uname -a Linux node-2.domain.tld 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 25 19:59:55 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@node-2 ~]# ip netns list haproxy qrouter-b582586e-70e3-4a38-8b19-039f30ce87a9 [root@node-2 ~]# su -m neutron -c 'ip netns list' [root@node-2 ~]# in the log below exception happens because namespace already exists (see full log in attach), but can't detected by ip netns list without root_wrapper. 2014-04-23 16:15:44.760 28240 DEBUG neutron.agent.linux.utils [req-d0f812f6-d987-45f5-9cff-11f1fa52fed6 None] Running command: ['ip', '-o', 'netns', 'list'] create_process / usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/utils.py:48 2014-04-23 16:15:44.781 28240 DEBUG neutron.agent.linux.utils [req-d0f812f6-d987-45f5-9cff-11f1fa52fed6 None] Command: ['ip', '-o', 'netns', 'list'] Exit code: 0 Stdout: '' Stderr: '' execute /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/utils.py:74 2014-04-23 16:15:44.782 28240 DEBUG neutron.agent.linux.utils [req-d0f812f6-d987-45f5-9cff-11f1fa52fed6 None] Running command: ['sudo', 'neutron-rootwrap', '/etc/neutron/roo twrap.conf', 'ip', 'netns', 'add', 'qrouter-b582586e-70e3-4a38-8b19-039f30ce87a9'] create_process /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/utils.py:48 2014-04-23 16:15:44.864 28240 DEBUG neutron.agent.linux.utils [req-d0f812f6-d987-45f5-9cff-11f1fa52fed6 None] Command: ['sudo', 'neutron-rootwrap', '/etc/neutron/rootwrap.conf', 'ip', 'netns', 'add', 'qrouter-b582586e-70e3-4a38-8b19-039f30ce87a9'] Exit code: 255 Stdout: '' Stderr: 'Could not create /var/run/netns/qrouter-b582586e-70e3-4a38-8b19-039f30ce87a9: File exists\n' execute /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/utils.py:7 4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/greenpool.py", line 80, in _spawn_n_impl func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/l3_agent.py", line 438, in process_router p['ip_cidr'], p['mac_address']) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/l3_agent.py", line 707, in internal_network_added prefix=INTERNAL_DEV_PREFIX) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/interface.py", line 195, in plug namespace_obj = ip.ensure_namespace(namespace) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py", line 136, in ensure_namespace ip = self.netns.add(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py", line 446, in add self._as_root('add', name, use_root_namespace=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py", line 217, in _as_root kwargs.get('use_root_namespace', False)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py", line 70, in _as_root namespace) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/ip_lib.py", line 81, in _execute root_helper=root_helper) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/neutron/agent/linux/utils.py", line 76, in execute raise RuntimeError(m) RuntimeError: Command: ['sudo', 'neutron-rootwrap', '/etc/neutron/rootwrap.conf', 'ip', 'netns', 'add', 'qrouter-b582586e-70e3-4a38-8b19-039f30ce87a9'] Exit code: 255 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1311804/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp