[Bug 1236875] [NEW] unable to hotplug additional network interfaces into instances

[James Page]

Public bug reported:

Nova RC1 on Ubuntu 12.04 from the Havana Cloud Archive Staging PPA.

Issuing:

nova interface-attach --net-id bab112ff-46c3-4034-8d27-936d7bb1ecd5
06401d17-ec0a-446e-9fac-67cef01a4060

should hotplug an additional network interface into instance 06401d17
-ec0a-446e-9fac-67cef01a4060; but nova throws the following error/trace:


2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py", line 461, in _process_data
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi     **args)
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/openstack/common/rpc/dispatcher.py", line 172, in dispatch
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi     result = getattr(proxyobj, method)(ctxt, **kwargs)
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 3880, in attach_interface
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi     self.driver.attach_interface(instance, image_meta, network_info[0])
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1244, in attach_interface
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi     self.vif_driver.plug(instance, vif)
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py", line 539, in plug
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi     vif_type = vif['type']
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi
2013-10-08 13:48:44.158 1106 TRACE nova.api.openstack.wsgi TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: nova (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: New

** Affects: nova (Ubuntu Saucy)
     Importance: High
         Status: New


** Tags: havana-rc-potential

** Tags added: havana-rc-potential

** Also affects: nova (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: nova (Ubuntu Saucy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: nova (Ubuntu Saucy)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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