When restarting the Keystone service, it starts with a PID but within a fraction of second it stops. Checking the status immediately afterwards, it shows a different PID and when rechecking afterwards, it's dead. root@hyper5:~# service keystone restart stop: Unknown instance: keystone start/running, process 37746 root@hyper5:~# service keystone status keystone start/running, process 37750 root@hyper5:~# service keystone status keystone stop/waiting