dead dashboard after update & reboot (nova-api doesn't start)

[Nux!]

On 11.01.2013 21:30, Nux! wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today after a "yum update" which did upgrade parts of my openstack
> installation and a reboot, I ended up with a "500 internal server
> error".
>
> Here's last 100 log entried in httpd/error_log
>
> centos 6.3 + epel (up to date :> ), selinux is in permissive mode.

Hi,

Apparently nova-api doesn't start anymore. The initscript reports "OK" 
but a second later it's dead:
openstack-nova-api dead but pid file exists

api.log fragment here http://fpaste.org/iZJr/

==
2013-01-12 11:45:20 19519 INFO nova.osapi_compute.wsgi.server [-] 
(19519) wsgi starting up on http://0.0.0.0:8774/
2013-01-12 11:45:20 19481 CRITICAL nova [-] [Errno 98] Address already 
in use
2013-01-12 11:45:21 19488 INFO nova.service [-] Parent process has died 
unexpectedly, exiting
==

But there is nothing listening on 8774 according to netstat and lsof, 
so why is it complaining?

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