Running Tests with Ubuntu 16.04 Host (No locks available)

Created by Kabir Khan
Last updated: May 09, 2017 by Ned Batchelder

Problem

Note: this only applies to devstack running with Ubuntu 16.04 as the host system.

If tests begin failing with an nfs error (something related to 'no locks available'), for example:

OSError: [Errno 37] No locks available

It is due to the statsd service not being started. NFS relies on statsd for providing locks.

Solution

Run the following commands on your host OS (>= Ubuntu 16.04)

sudo systemctl enable rpc-statd  # Enable statd on boot
sudo systemctl start rpc-statd  # Start statd for the current session

You shouldn't need to reboot or reload Vagrant but if the problem persists and you continue to get errors related to 'no locks available' a 'vagrant reload' should do the trick.