Can't launch container in new cluster, NOT NULL constraint failed: instances.node_id

I created a new 3 node cluster on Ubuntu 22.04, lxd 5.8. All hosts show online and fully operational. When I try to launch a host I get:

Error: Failed instance creation: Failed creating instance record: Add instance info to the database: Failed to create “instances” entry: NOT NULL constraint failed: instances.node_id

Anyone know what’s gone wrong here?

Here’s the debug

nickadam@guided-kid:~$ lxc --debug launch ubuntu:22.04 mycontainer -p 3012
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Connecting to a local LXD over a Unix socket
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Sending request to LXD                        etag= method=GET url="http://unix.socket/1.0"
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Got response struct from LXD
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00]
        {
                "config": {
                        "cluster.https_address": "10.10.10.202:8443",
                        "core.https_address": "10.10.10.202:8443"
                },
                "api_extensions": [
                        "storage_zfs_remove_snapshots",
                        "container_host_shutdown_timeout",
                        "container_stop_priority",
                        "container_syscall_filtering",
                        "auth_pki",
                        "container_last_used_at",
                        "etag",
                        "patch",
                        "usb_devices",
                        "https_allowed_credentials",
                        "image_compression_algorithm",
                        "directory_manipulation",
                        "container_cpu_time",
                        "storage_zfs_use_refquota",
                        "storage_lvm_mount_options",
                        "network",
                        "profile_usedby",
                        "container_push",
                        "container_exec_recording",
                        "certificate_update",
                        "container_exec_signal_handling",
                        "gpu_devices",
                        "container_image_properties",
                        "migration_progress",
                        "id_map",
                        "network_firewall_filtering",
                        "network_routes",
                        "storage",
                        "file_delete",
                        "file_append",
                        "network_dhcp_expiry",
                        "storage_lvm_vg_rename",
                        "storage_lvm_thinpool_rename",
                        "network_vlan",
                        "image_create_aliases",
                        "container_stateless_copy",
                        "container_only_migration",
                        "storage_zfs_clone_copy",
                        "unix_device_rename",
                        "storage_lvm_use_thinpool",
                        "storage_rsync_bwlimit",
                        "network_vxlan_interface",
                        "storage_btrfs_mount_options",
                        "entity_description",
                        "image_force_refresh",
                        "storage_lvm_lv_resizing",
                        "id_map_base",
                        "file_symlinks",
                        "container_push_target",
                        "network_vlan_physical",
                        "storage_images_delete",
                        "container_edit_metadata",
                        "container_snapshot_stateful_migration",
                        "storage_driver_ceph",
                        "storage_ceph_user_name",
                        "resource_limits",
                        "storage_volatile_initial_source",
                        "storage_ceph_force_osd_reuse",
                        "storage_block_filesystem_btrfs",
                        "resources",
                        "kernel_limits",
                        "storage_api_volume_rename",
                        "macaroon_authentication",
                        "network_sriov",
                        "console",
                        "restrict_devlxd",
                        "migration_pre_copy",
                        "infiniband",
                        "maas_network",
                        "devlxd_events",
                        "proxy",
                        "network_dhcp_gateway",
                        "file_get_symlink",
                        "network_leases",
                        "unix_device_hotplug",
                        "storage_api_local_volume_handling",
                        "operation_description",
                        "clustering",
                        "event_lifecycle",
                        "storage_api_remote_volume_handling",
                        "nvidia_runtime",
                        "container_mount_propagation",
                        "container_backup",
                        "devlxd_images",
                        "container_local_cross_pool_handling",
                        "proxy_unix",
                        "proxy_udp",
                        "clustering_join",
                        "proxy_tcp_udp_multi_port_handling",
                        "network_state",
                        "proxy_unix_dac_properties",
                        "container_protection_delete",
                        "unix_priv_drop",
                        "pprof_http",
                        "proxy_haproxy_protocol",
                        "network_hwaddr",
                        "proxy_nat",
                        "network_nat_order",
                        "container_full",
                        "candid_authentication",
                        "backup_compression",
                        "candid_config",
                        "nvidia_runtime_config",
                        "storage_api_volume_snapshots",
                        "storage_unmapped",
                        "projects",
                        "candid_config_key",
                        "network_vxlan_ttl",
                        "container_incremental_copy",
                        "usb_optional_vendorid",
                        "snapshot_scheduling",
                        "snapshot_schedule_aliases",
                        "container_copy_project",
                        "clustering_server_address",
                        "clustering_image_replication",
                        "container_protection_shift",
                        "snapshot_expiry",
                        "container_backup_override_pool",
                        "snapshot_expiry_creation",
                        "network_leases_location",
                        "resources_cpu_socket",
                        "resources_gpu",
                        "resources_numa",
                        "kernel_features",
                        "id_map_current",
                        "event_location",
                        "storage_api_remote_volume_snapshots",
                        "network_nat_address",
                        "container_nic_routes",
                        "rbac",
                        "cluster_internal_copy",
                        "seccomp_notify",
                        "lxc_features",
                        "container_nic_ipvlan",
                        "network_vlan_sriov",
                        "storage_cephfs",
                        "container_nic_ipfilter",
                        "resources_v2",
                        "container_exec_user_group_cwd",
                        "container_syscall_intercept",
                        "container_disk_shift",
                        "storage_shifted",
                        "resources_infiniband",
                        "daemon_storage",
                        "instances",
                        "image_types",
                        "resources_disk_sata",
                        "clustering_roles",
                        "images_expiry",
                        "resources_network_firmware",
                        "backup_compression_algorithm",
                        "ceph_data_pool_name",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_mount",
                        "compression_squashfs",
                        "container_raw_mount",
                        "container_nic_routed",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_mount_fuse",
                        "container_disk_ceph",
                        "virtual-machines",
                        "image_profiles",
                        "clustering_architecture",
                        "resources_disk_id",
                        "storage_lvm_stripes",
                        "vm_boot_priority",
                        "unix_hotplug_devices",
                        "api_filtering",
                        "instance_nic_network",
                        "clustering_sizing",
                        "firewall_driver",
                        "projects_limits",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_hugetlbfs",
                        "limits_hugepages",
                        "container_nic_routed_gateway",
                        "projects_restrictions",
                        "custom_volume_snapshot_expiry",
                        "volume_snapshot_scheduling",
                        "trust_ca_certificates",
                        "snapshot_disk_usage",
                        "clustering_edit_roles",
                        "container_nic_routed_host_address",
                        "container_nic_ipvlan_gateway",
                        "resources_usb_pci",
                        "resources_cpu_threads_numa",
                        "resources_cpu_core_die",
                        "api_os",
                        "container_nic_routed_host_table",
                        "container_nic_ipvlan_host_table",
                        "container_nic_ipvlan_mode",
                        "resources_system",
                        "images_push_relay",
                        "network_dns_search",
                        "container_nic_routed_limits",
                        "instance_nic_bridged_vlan",
                        "network_state_bond_bridge",
                        "usedby_consistency",
                        "custom_block_volumes",
                        "clustering_failure_domains",
                        "resources_gpu_mdev",
                        "console_vga_type",
                        "projects_limits_disk",
                        "network_type_macvlan",
                        "network_type_sriov",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_bpf_devices",
                        "network_type_ovn",
                        "projects_networks",
                        "projects_networks_restricted_uplinks",
                        "custom_volume_backup",
                        "backup_override_name",
                        "storage_rsync_compression",
                        "network_type_physical",
                        "network_ovn_external_subnets",
                        "network_ovn_nat",
                        "network_ovn_external_routes_remove",
                        "tpm_device_type",
                        "storage_zfs_clone_copy_rebase",
                        "gpu_mdev",
                        "resources_pci_iommu",
                        "resources_network_usb",
                        "resources_disk_address",
                        "network_physical_ovn_ingress_mode",
                        "network_ovn_dhcp",
                        "network_physical_routes_anycast",
                        "projects_limits_instances",
                        "network_state_vlan",
                        "instance_nic_bridged_port_isolation",
                        "instance_bulk_state_change",
                        "network_gvrp",
                        "instance_pool_move",
                        "gpu_sriov",
                        "pci_device_type",
                        "storage_volume_state",
                        "network_acl",
                        "migration_stateful",
                        "disk_state_quota",
                        "storage_ceph_features",
                        "projects_compression",
                        "projects_images_remote_cache_expiry",
                        "certificate_project",
                        "network_ovn_acl",
                        "projects_images_auto_update",
                        "projects_restricted_cluster_target",
                        "images_default_architecture",
                        "network_ovn_acl_defaults",
                        "gpu_mig",
                        "project_usage",
                        "network_bridge_acl",
                        "warnings",
                        "projects_restricted_backups_and_snapshots",
                        "clustering_join_token",
                        "clustering_description",
                        "server_trusted_proxy",
                        "clustering_update_cert",
                        "storage_api_project",
                        "server_instance_driver_operational",
                        "server_supported_storage_drivers",
                        "event_lifecycle_requestor_address",
                        "resources_gpu_usb",
                        "clustering_evacuation",
                        "network_ovn_nat_address",
                        "network_bgp",
                        "network_forward",
                        "custom_volume_refresh",
                        "network_counters_errors_dropped",
                        "metrics",
                        "image_source_project",
                        "clustering_config",
                        "network_peer",
                        "linux_sysctl",
                        "network_dns",
                        "ovn_nic_acceleration",
                        "certificate_self_renewal",
                        "instance_project_move",
                        "storage_volume_project_move",
                        "cloud_init",
                        "network_dns_nat",
                        "database_leader",
                        "instance_all_projects",
                        "clustering_groups",
                        "ceph_rbd_du",
                        "instance_get_full",
                        "qemu_metrics",
                        "gpu_mig_uuid",
                        "event_project",
                        "clustering_evacuation_live",
                        "instance_allow_inconsistent_copy",
                        "network_state_ovn",
                        "storage_volume_api_filtering",
                        "image_restrictions",
                        "storage_zfs_export",
                        "network_dns_records",
                        "storage_zfs_reserve_space",
                        "network_acl_log",
                        "storage_zfs_blocksize",
                        "metrics_cpu_seconds",
                        "instance_snapshot_never",
                        "certificate_token",
                        "instance_nic_routed_neighbor_probe",
                        "event_hub",
                        "agent_nic_config",
                        "projects_restricted_intercept",
                        "metrics_authentication",
                        "images_target_project",
                        "cluster_migration_inconsistent_copy",
                        "cluster_ovn_chassis",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_sched_setscheduler",
                        "storage_lvm_thinpool_metadata_size",
                        "storage_volume_state_total",
                        "instance_file_head",
                        "instances_nic_host_name",
                        "image_copy_profile",
                        "container_syscall_intercept_sysinfo",
                        "clustering_evacuation_mode",
                        "resources_pci_vpd",
                        "qemu_raw_conf",
                        "storage_cephfs_fscache",
                        "network_load_balancer",
                        "vsock_api",
                        "instance_ready_state",
                        "network_bgp_holdtime",
                        "storage_volumes_all_projects",
                        "metrics_memory_oom_total",
                        "storage_buckets",
                        "storage_buckets_create_credentials",
                        "metrics_cpu_effective_total",
                        "projects_networks_restricted_access",
                        "storage_buckets_local",
                        "loki",
                        "acme",
                        "internal_metrics",
                        "cluster_join_token_expiry",
                        "remote_token_expiry",
                        "init_preseed",
                        "storage_volumes_created_at",
                        "cpu_hotplug"
                ],
                "api_status": "stable",
                "api_version": "1.0",
                "auth": "trusted",
                "public": false,
                "auth_methods": [
                        "tls"
                ],
                "environment": {
                        "addresses": [
                                "10.10.10.202:8443"
                        ],
                        "architectures": [
                                "x86_64",
                                "i686"
                        ],
                        "certificate": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----REDACTED-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n",
                        "certificate_fingerprint": "REDACTED",
                        "driver": "lxc | qemu",
                        "driver_version": "5.0.1 | 7.1.0",
                        "firewall": "nftables",
                        "kernel": "Linux",
                        "kernel_architecture": "x86_64",
                        "kernel_features": {
                                "idmapped_mounts": "true",
                                "netnsid_getifaddrs": "true",
                                "seccomp_listener": "true",
                                "seccomp_listener_continue": "true",
                                "shiftfs": "false",
                                "uevent_injection": "true",
                                "unpriv_fscaps": "true"
                        },
                        "kernel_version": "5.15.0-56-generic",
                        "lxc_features": {
                                "cgroup2": "true",
                                "core_scheduling": "true",
                                "devpts_fd": "true",
                                "idmapped_mounts_v2": "true",
                                "mount_injection_file": "true",
                                "network_gateway_device_route": "true",
                                "network_ipvlan": "true",
                                "network_l2proxy": "true",
                                "network_phys_macvlan_mtu": "true",
                                "network_veth_router": "true",
                                "pidfd": "true",
                                "seccomp_allow_deny_syntax": "true",
                                "seccomp_notify": "true",
                                "seccomp_proxy_send_notify_fd": "true"
                        },
                        "os_name": "Ubuntu",
                        "os_version": "22.04",
                        "project": "default",
                        "server": "lxd",
                        "server_clustered": true,
                        "server_event_mode": "full-mesh",
                        "server_name": "guided-kid",
                        "server_pid": 2816,
                        "server_version": "5.8",
                        "storage": "dir",
                        "storage_version": "1",
                        "storage_supported_drivers": [
                                {
                                        "Name": "dir",
                                        "Version": "1",
                                        "Remote": false
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "lvm",
                                        "Version": "2.03.07(2) (2019-11-30) / 1.02.167 (2019-11-30) / 4.45.0",
                                        "Remote": false
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "zfs",
                                        "Version": "2.1.4-0ubuntu0.1",
                                        "Remote": false
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "btrfs",
                                        "Version": "5.4.1",
                                        "Remote": false
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "ceph",
                                        "Version": "15.2.16",
                                        "Remote": true
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "cephfs",
                                        "Version": "15.2.16",
                                        "Remote": true
                                },
                                {
                                        "Name": "cephobject",
                                        "Version": "15.2.16",
                                        "Remote": true
                                }
                        ]
                }
        }
Creating mycontainer
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Connecting to a remote simplestreams server   URL="https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases"
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Connected to the websocket: ws://unix.socket/1.0/events
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Sending request to LXD                        etag= method=POST url="http://unix.socket/1.0/instances"
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00]
        {
                "architecture": "",
                "config": {},
                "devices": {},
                "ephemeral": false,
                "profiles": [
                        "3012"
                ],
                "stateful": false,
                "description": "",
                "name": "mycontainer",
                "source": {
                        "type": "image",
                        "certificate": "",
                        "alias": "22.04",
                        "server": "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases",
                        "protocol": "simplestreams",
                        "mode": "pull",
                        "allow_inconsistent": false
                },
                "instance_type": "",
                "type": "container"
        }
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Got operation from LXD
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00]
        {
                "id": "55a6e546-18d4-4948-aabe-61194c017d5e",
                "class": "task",
                "description": "Creating instance",
                "created_at": "2022-12-08T09:26:57.909724731-05:00",
                "updated_at": "2022-12-08T09:26:57.909724731-05:00",
                "status": "Running",
                "status_code": 103,
                "resources": {
                        "containers": [
                                "/1.0/containers/mycontainer"
                        ],
                        "instances": [
                                "/1.0/instances/mycontainer"
                        ]
                },
                "metadata": null,
                "may_cancel": false,
                "err": "",
                "location": "prompt-sawfly.hcpss.org"
        }
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Sending request to LXD                        etag= method=GET url="http://unix.socket/1.0/operations/55a6e546-18d4-4948-aabe-61194c017d5e"
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00] Got response struct from LXD
DEBUG  [2022-12-08T09:26:57-05:00]
        {
                "id": "55a6e546-18d4-4948-aabe-61194c017d5e",
                "class": "task",
                "description": "Creating instance",
                "created_at": "2022-12-08T09:26:57.909724731-05:00",
                "updated_at": "2022-12-08T09:26:57.909724731-05:00",
                "status": "Running",
                "status_code": 103,
                "resources": {
                        "containers": [
                                "/1.0/containers/mycontainer"
                        ],
                        "instances": [
                                "/1.0/instances/mycontainer"
                        ]
                },
                "metadata": null,
                "may_cancel": false,
                "err": "",
                "location": "prompt-sawfly.hcpss.org"
        }
Error: Failed instance creation: Failed creating instance record: Add instance info to the database: Failed to create "instances" entry: NOT NULL constraint failed: instances.node_id
nickadam@guided-kid:~$

and the profile

config: {}
description: VLAN 3012
devices:
  eth0:
    name: eth0
    nictype: bridged
    parent: br-vlan.3012
    type: nic
  root:
    path: /
    pool: data
    type: disk
name: "3012"
used_by: []

I’m using dir storage. Parent interface is up.

How are you attempting to create the instance? lxc command or via API?

lxc command, first line of the debug code block

What do these commands show?

lxc cluster list
lxd sql global 'select * from nodes'
nickadam@guided-kid:~$ lxc cluster list
+---------------+----------------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+--------+-------------------+
|     NAME      |            URL             |      ROLES      | ARCHITECTURE | FAILURE DOMAIN | DESCRIPTION | STATE  |      MESSAGE      |
+---------------+----------------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+--------+-------------------+
| guided-crow   | https://10.10.10.203:8443  | database        | x86_64       | default        |             | ONLINE | Fully operational |
+---------------+----------------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+--------+-------------------+
| prompt-sawfly | https://10.10.10.201:8443  | database-leader | x86_64       | default        |             | ONLINE | Fully operational |
|               |                            | database        |              |                |             |        |                   |
+---------------+----------------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+--------+-------------------+
| guided-kid    | https://10.10.10.202:8443  | database        | x86_64       | default        |             | ONLINE | Fully operational |
+---------------+----------------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+--------+-------------------+

nickadam@guided-kid:~$ lxd sql global 'select * from nodes'
+----+---------------+-------------+--------------------+--------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------+------+-------------------+
| id |     name      | description |      address       | schema | api_extensions |              heartbeat              | state | arch | failure_domain_id |
+----+---------------+-------------+--------------------+--------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------+------+-------------------+
| 1  | prompt-sawfly |             | 10.10.10.201:8443  | 67     | 334            | 2022-12-08T12:37:21.205168476-05:00 | 0     | 2    | <nil>             |
| 2  | guided-kid    |             | 10.10.10.202:8443  | 67     | 334            | 2022-12-08T12:37:26.086106361-05:00 | 0     | 2    | <nil>             |
| 3  | guided-crow   |             | 10.10.10.203:8443  | 67     | 334            | 2022-12-08T12:37:26.542807593-05:00 | 0     | 2    | <nil>             |
+----+---------------+-------------+--------------------+--------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------+------+-------------------+

Can you try reloading lxd on each member and see if it fixes it.

systemctl reload snap.lxd.daemon

Yeah that fixed it. Thanks! Hope it doesn’t come back again. Maybe it was cosmic rays this time. :wink:

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If you have the exact steps on how you achieved that issue it would be useful for us to fix it. Thanks

I don’t, but if I figure it out I’ll share.

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hi Thomas, I have the same problem, at first, I rename my “host” name on the server. then rename cluster member. and now I can’t create a new VM.

I restarted LXD only on this server and solved the problem.