April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Running services properly in OpenStack depends on which port each process should listen to. For example, starting the identity service can return the following error message:
keystone error: [Error 98] Address already in use
This error message refers to a misconfiguration in the Keystone service file and must be revised. In fact, the identity service socket listens by default on port 5000, which can be occupied by another application or process. This typical issue can be tackled by checking which port is configured in each OpenStack configuration file and double-checked using friendly command line tools such as lsof or netstat. For example:
# lsof -i :5000
or:
# netstat -ant | grep 5000tcp6 0 0 :::5000 :::* LISTEN ...
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