Failed to attach volume systool is not installed in OpenStack

Question

Hi Guys,

I tried to attach one volume in my instance. But I am getting the below given error.

WARNING nova.virt.libvirt.utils [req-1200f887-c82b-4e7c-a891-fac2e3735dbb admin admin|req-1200f887-c82b4e7c a891-fac2e3735dbb admin admin] systool is not installed
ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-1200f887-c82b-4e7c-a891-fac2e3735dbb admin admin|req-1200f887-c82b-4e7ca891-fac2e3735dbb admin admin]
[instance: df834b5a-8c3f-477a-be9b-47c97626555c|instance: df834b5a-8c3f-47 7a-be9b-47c97626555c]
Failed to attach volume 13d5c633-903a-4764-a5a0-3336945b1db1 at /dev/vdk.

How can I solve this problem?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

This warning and error occurs if you do not have the required sysfsutils package installed on the compute node. Use the below given command and try again.

$ yum install sysfsutils   //CentOS/RHEL
$ apt-get install sysfsutils //Ubuntu

Hope this will help you.

Thank You