Can't get a list of instances (vms) if one or more are reporting an error.

[pazos]

Steps to reproduce.

1. ArchLinux host w/ incus 6.1 (affected by https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/stopped-instances-report-state-error/20004)
2. Stop a VM.
3. Try to get a list of virtual machines under "Instances"

Expected results: a list of running and error instances (like in incus list)

Result:

pazos@terra ~> incus list
+-----------+---------+------------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+
|   NAME    |  STATE  |          IPV4          | IPV6 |      TYPE       | SNAPSHOTS |
+-----------+---------+------------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+
| debian    | ERROR   |                        |      | VIRTUAL-MACHINE | 0         |
+-----------+---------+------------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+

[matthewalanpenning]

@pazos Interesting. Is the ERROR state something that happens to all VMs in Arch with Incus 6.1? I am trying to figure out how to recreate the ERROR state to see what is going.

[pazos]

@pazos Interesting. Is the ERROR state something that happens to all VMs in Arch with Incus 6.1? I am trying to figure out how to recreate the ERROR state to see what is going.

Yup, they work perfectly fine when they're running but show ERROR when they're stopped.

It should be easy to reproduce or Arch:

incus init --vm --empty whatever
incus list whatever
+----------+-------+------+------+-----------------+-----------+
|   NAME   | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 |      TYPE       | SNAPSHOTS |
+----------+-------+------+------+-----------------+-----------+
| whatever | ERROR |      |      | VIRTUAL-MACHINE | 0         |
+----------+-------+------+------+-----------------+-----------+

[matthewalanpenning]

Thanks. I was able to recreate in Arch. I found the issue in my code and will have a patch out hopefully this weekend in v0.5.3.

[matthewalanpenning]

Just pushed the v0.5.3 update. I also added the ability to start your instance from the Error state too to get it back running.

[pazos]

Thank you!

Works perfectly.