# Volume attachment fails - CSI Cinder - Openstack

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/volume-attachment-fails-csi-cinder-openstack/20375>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/volume-attachment-fails-csi-cinder-openstack/20375 "2022-06-21T04:52:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![srao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@srao](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/srao)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/volume-attachment-fails-csi-cinder-openstack/20375/1 "2022-06-21T04:52:45Z")

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### Cluster information:

Kubernetes version: 1.19.7  
Cloud being used: (put bare-metal if not on a public cloud) Openstack - On Prem  
Installation method: Kubespray  
Host OS: Ubuntu bionic  
CNI and version: [Quay](http://quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.8.8)  
CRI and version: docker://19.3.14

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/volume-attachment-fails-csi-cinder-openstack/20375/2 "2022-06-21T04:56:33Z")

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$ kubectl get events  
LAST SEEN TYPE REASON OBJECT MESSAGE  
10m Normal WaitForFirstConsumer persistentvolumeclaim/csi-pvc waiting for first consumer to be created before binding  
10m Normal ExternalProvisioning persistentvolumeclaim/csi-pvc waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner “[cinder.csi.openstack.org](http://cinder.csi.openstack.org)” or manually created by system administrator  
10m Normal Provisioning persistentvolumeclaim/csi-pvc External provisioner is provisioning volume for claim “default/csi-pvc”  
10m Normal ProvisioningSucceeded persistentvolumeclaim/csi-pvc Successfully provisioned volume pvc-c54ef457-b6f2-4a3c-b396-4f24cd3060a0  
10m Normal Scheduled pod/nginx-csi Successfully assigned default/nginx-csi to srr-k8s-node-1  
16s Warning FailedAttachVolume pod/nginx-csi AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume “pvc-c54ef457-b6f2-4a3c-b396-4f24cd3060a0” : rpc error: code = NotFound desc = ControllerPublishVolume Instance not found  
8m30s Warning FailedMount pod/nginx-csi Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[csi-data], unattached volumes=[default-token-dzztj csi-data]: timed out waiting for the condition  
105s Warning FailedMount pod/nginx-csi Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[csi-data], unattached volumes=[csi-data default-token-dzztj]: timed out waiting for the condition

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ensemble@mano-launchpad:~$ cat pvc.yaml  
apiVersion: v1  
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim  
metadata:  
name: csi-pvc  
spec:  
accessModes:

- ReadWriteOnce  
resources:  
requests:  
storage: 1Gi  
storageClassName: standard

$ cat nginx.yaml  
apiVersion: v1  
kind: Pod  
metadata:  
name: nginx-csi  
spec:  
hostAliases:

- ip: “10.1.23.90”  
hostnames:
  - “controller”  
containers:
  - image: nginx  
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent  
name: nginx  
ports:
    - containerPort: 80  
protocol: TCP  
volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /var/lib/www/html  
name: csi-data  
volumes:

  - name: csi-data  
persistentVolumeClaim:  
claimName: csi-pvc  
readOnly: false

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## $ kubectl get sc NAME PROVISIONER RECLAIMPOLICY VOLUMEBINDINGMODE ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION AGE standard (default) [cinder.csi.openstack.org](http://cinder.csi.openstack.org) Delete WaitForFirstConsumer false 34m $

$ kubectl logs -f csi-cinder-controllerplugin-868c8bc55f-h9l6n -n kube-system  
Defaulted container “csi-attacher” out of: csi-attacher, csi-provisioner, csi-snapshotter, csi-resizer, cinder-csi-plugin  
I0621 04:19:28.889157 1 main.go:91] Version: v2.2.0-0-g97411fa7  
I0621 04:19:28.890752 1 connection.go:153] Connecting to unix:///var/lib/csi/sockets/pluginproxy/csi.sock  
I0621 04:19:30.720456 1 common.go:111] Probing CSI driver for readiness  
W0621 04:19:30.727413 1 metrics.go:142] metrics endpoint will not be started because `metrics-address` was not specified.  
I0621 04:19:30.728822 1 controller.go:121] Starting CSI attacher  
E0621 04:31:45.076082 1 reflector.go:320] [k8s.io/client-go/informers/factory.go:135:](http://k8s.io/client-go/informers/factory.go:135:) Failed to watch \*v1beta1.CSINode: Get [https://10.233.0.1:443/apis/storage.k8s.io/v1beta1/csinodes?allowWatchBookmarks=true&resourceVersion=1296&timeout=5m19s&timeoutSeconds=319&watch=true:](https://10.233.0.1:443/apis/storage.k8s.io/v1beta1/csinodes?allowWatchBookmarks=true&resourceVersion=1296&timeout=5m19s&timeoutSeconds=319&watch=true:) dial tcp 10.233.0.1:443: connect: connection refused