Boxgrinder hangs waiting for EBS volume to attach

[wcmortimore]

Attached is a the log of an attempted boxgrinder build.

As can be seen, the EBS volume will not complete attaching. The volume can be seen in attaching state on the aws management console.

Looking at this site, it seems like this problem was alread fixed.

Any clues?

[goldmann]

I would say that this was a temporary AWS issue. If not, please restart the instance and I'm sure you'll be able to build the image.

--Marek

[wcmortimore]

Thank you for the quick response.

It is 12 hours later and I still am getting the same issue at that point of the process.

How would I restart the instance - the AMI doesn't exist yet, at least in the aws management console.

[goldmann]

I was thinking about restarting the instance where you're trying to build the AMI (host).

--Marek

[wcmortimore]

Ah... you mean the instance that is doing the boxgrinding - I will try it and close the discussion if that works.

[wcmortimore]

Well rebooting the boxgrinder instance and starting where i left off, I got this:

D, [2011-11-16T15:22:01.052445 #849] DEBUG -- : Waiting for EBS volume vol-a43ff6c9 to be available...

I, [2011-11-16T15:22:01.130541 #849]  INFO -- : Attaching created volume...

F, [2011-11-16T15:22:01.233807 #849] FATAL -- : AWS::EC2::Errors::InvalidParameterValue: Invalid value '/dev/sdf' for unixDevice. Attachment point /dev/sdf is already in use

Here is the file system on the boxgrinder build instance:

[root@ip-10-112-58-253 appliances]# df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs                10321208   8366908   1430012  86% /

udev                    289880         0    289880   0% /dev

tmpfs                   305388         0    305388   0% /dev/shm

tmpfs                   305388       264    305124   1% /run

/dev/xvda1            10321208   8366908   1430012  86% /

tmpfs                   305388         0    305388   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

tmpfs                   305388         0    305388   0% /media

Doesn't look right to me.

[wcmortimore]

Got the boxgrinder back into shape and the offending EBS removed. Started over, and all worked out well.

Thanks for the help.