Known Issues

The following known issues exist in Eucalyptus 3.2.0 and its dependencies. Please contact Eucalyptus support for known workarounds to these issues.

Issue Description
VMware Broker requires eucalyptus user to have write access to the /etc/eucalyptus directory (BROKER-9) If the eucalyptus user does not have write access to the /etc/eucalyptus directory, the VMware Broker will stay in a BROKEN state, and euca-configure-vmware will fail. Run chown -R eucalyptus:eucalyptus /etc/eucalyptus/ on the VMware Broker machine to ensure that the eucalyptus user owns the necessary files.
The User Console exhibits odd behavior (EUCA-4530) TThe User Console is intended to work with normal user accounts. If you log in with the eucalyptus account, the User Console will not work correctly on some pages, such as Elastic IPs.
Some components are initialized rather than disabled after an unexpected reboot (EUCA-4354) This only occurs when CLC, Walrus, and SC are located on the same machine in an HA setting. In an unexpected reboot within that setting, when the redundant components switch roles, some secondary components can become initialized rather than disabled. For a workaround, restart the initialized components. We strongly recommend that you use one machine for each Eucalyptus component in HA mode.
User console requires upload of private key to access a Windows instance password (EUCA-4293) Passwords for Windows instances are encrypted for a specified key pair. The user console requires that you upload the appropriate private key to access an instance password. We strongly recommend against using this feature without HTTPS! To access the instance password without uploading your private key, use euca-get-password [instance id] -k [keyfile] on the command line.
User console cannot generate new Windows password on restarting a stopped instance (EUCA-4291) The user console continues to display an old password after a Windows instance is stopped and restarted. You must log out of the user console, log in again, and then generate a password, in order to log in to a Windows instance that has been stopped and restarted.
BFEBS fails in some cases when running new instances, with error RollbackException: Error while committing the transaction (EUCA-4271) If a new instance is constructed in a group concurrently with network resources being freed in that group, a RollbackException: Error while committing the transaction error is thrown. This also results in an orphaned volume that cannot be deleted until the VM metadata has timed out and the volume is recognised as unused. Running the new instance a second time should succeed.
euca-reboot-instances only reboots one instance, even if multiple instances are specified (EUCA-4268) euca-reboot-instances reboots the first instance specified. To reboot multiple instances, run euca-reboot-instances once per instance.
Changing LOCALE does not change the language of the fault message in fault logs (EUCA-4233) Changing the system LOCALE does not change the language of the fault message logged in [component]-fault.log. Create customized fault messages in the /etc/eucalyptus/faults/en_US directory if you do not wish to use the provided messages.
User console hangs when launching an instance with large user data file (EUCA-4223) Launching an instance through the console may hang if the user data file is too big. Launch instances on the command line if the user data file is larger than 16KB.
A snapshot registered as an image must be deregistered twice to be fully removed (EUCA-4207) Running deregister-image does not initially delete the image record for a snapshot that was registered as an image. You must run deregister-image twice to ensure the image is deleted.
CC image caching does not work with some symlinks (EUCA-4181) If CC_IMAGE_PROXY_PATH in eucalyptus.conf is set to a symlink, CC image caching may not work. Ensure the symlink is placed in a path that is readable by the 'eucalyptus' user.
DBResourceCheck exceptions logged at ERROR log level (EUCA-4177) The DBResourceCheck class frequently polls to determine the number of active database connections for a given alias. This can result in a DBResourceCheck exception. This exception is expected, and is not fatal.
The reporting feature in the Eucalyptus Administrator Console show no metrics. (EUCA-4168) This occurs only if you run a report that includes the current date. The metrics that show no data are: CpuUsage%, Net Total In/Out, Disk R/W, Disk IOPS R/W, and DiskTime. For a workaround, use the CLI command, eureport-generate-report, to run reports from the Cloud Controller for a time period that includes the current date. You can also use the Eucalyptus Administrator Console and move the end date up the previous day.
The euca-describe-bundle-tasks command does not keep task status after task completes (EUCA-4140) When bundling a Windows instance, the task is removed from the task list as soon as the bundle completes, so euca-describe-bundle-tasks never shows a 'complete' status.
Attempts to create an instance from an uncached image stay pending indefinitely (EUCA-4112) If the cluster controller image cache is set to zero, attempts to create an instance from an uncached image will remain pending indefinitely. To prevent images being cached, remove the CC_IMAGE_PROXY line from eucalyptus.conf.
[error:0290] message printed on upgrade (EUCA-4027) The Eucalyptus upgrade process requires a large number of file descriptors, and an error may occur if ulimit is not set to an appropriate value. To avoid this error, set ulimit -n 5000 before upgrading Eucalyptus. This error is not an indication of a failed upgrade.
Unable to start stopped instances after upgrade (EUCA-4026) Eucalyptus 3.2.0 manages ISCSI targets in a different way to previous versions. The first attempt to start any stopped instances relying on iscsiadm will fail, but the issue is resolved during cleanup so subsequent requests for that instance will work.
Vague error message: Failed to find corresponding class mapping for element: RegisterVMwareBroker in namespace. (EUCA-3808) If you get this error message, you need to install the eucalyptus-enterprise-vmware-broker-libs on the CLC. Run yum install eucalyptus-enterprise-vmware-broker-libs on each CLC in your cloud.
Capacity report shows unordered list of VM types (EUCA-3707) When running a capacity report, the VM types are not ordered from smallest to largest instance type when displayed at the cloud or AZ property level.
Quota limiting run instances against availabilityzone resource does not work (EUCA-3614) A policy which limits the number of instances which can be run within an availability zone has no effect.
euca-describe-nodes does not return consistent results (EUCA-3456) The output of euca-describe-nodes is not consistent.
ENABLED CC have two NAT rules about 169.254.169.254 (EUCA-3440) In HA Mode, ENABLED CC can get into a state where it reports both ENABLED and DISABLED CLC in iptables for the metadata service.
euca-start-instances does not return correct information (EUCA-3311) euca-start-instances only returns the instance identifier and does not return the previous or the current state of the instance.
Walrus does not failover in HA if eucalyptus-cloud process is forcibly killed on primary (EUCA-3202) If the eucalyptus-cloud process is forcibly terminated (kill -9) on the primary Walrus, failover to the secondary Walrus is not automatically triggered.
euca-create-image from ebs backed instance fails, returns 0 (EUCA-1333) euca-create-image is currently unsupported.
IP pages do not work properly for admin user in Eucalyptus User Console (EUCA-3548) All user IP addresses are shown, rather than just the admin user's IP addresses.
Must use user-friendly names for mulitpathing(DOC-504) Eucalyptus connect scripts assume multipathing uses user friendly names instead of WWID for the multipath device names, so the "user_friendly_names" option must be enabled in /etc/multipath.conf.
RollbackException error while committing transaction failure when attempting to run a BFEBS instance(EUCA-4271) In some cases, network resources (primarily vlan tags for the network group) are freed concurrently while a new instance is being constructed in that same group. If the network group is seen to have no more instances, then the CC can timeout the vlan tag and then inform the CLC, which frees the vlan tag resource. If there is a concurrent instance being constructed, however, an attempt may be made to use that vlan tag, and upon volume attach the database update fails because the vlan/network tag record doesn't exist. When this happens, the instance will stay in a 'pending' state with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 for a very long time. There is no long-term negative effect of this condition. To resolve this issue, you should proceed with terminating the instance, deleting its resulting volume if necessary, and then re-running the instance.
ERR-1009 "Mismatched cryptographical keys" gets written too many times in cc-fault.log (EUCA-3986) Currently, CC may log this fault once for each process in the pool. This is because the logic that suppresses duplicate faults relies on process-local memory rather than memory regions shared across CC processes.
Eucalyptus Console https redirect doesn't work (EUCA-4104) When SSL is enabled for the user console, http requests do not automatically redirect to the proper https address, which can result in a blank page.
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