[rhos-list] Packstack Interactive Error

[Derek Higgins]

On 02/05/2013 03:47 PM, James Labocki wrote:
> Thanks all. I was able to get packstack working using the newer version and RHEL 6.4. It's a really nice utility for automating the installation! A couple of quick comments. 

Thanks James for you feedback see below

> 
> 1. It seems that packstack automatically subscribes the system using certificate based entitlement (subscription-manager). This can cause some issues if someone already has a system subscribed using classic entitlement. Perhaps adding a check and disabling classic entitlement/yum plugins could solve this. 
We're currently looking into supporting rhn classic so this hopefully
wont be a problem soon.

> 
> 2. If there was a way to run packstack with an option to determine the state of the system(s) or where the installation has failed when previously run it would be helpful to the end user. 
We can look into this, improving the feedback given to the user in the
event of an error should help in this area a lot.

> 
> -James
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com>
>> To: "Paul Robert Marino" <prmarino1 at gmail.com>, "Derek Higgins" <dhiggins at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "James Labocki" <jlabocki at redhat.com>, "Martin Magr" <mmagr at redhat.com>, "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>,
>> "rhos-list" <rhos-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 10:56:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [rhos-list] Packstack Interactive Error
>>
>>>> I attempted using
>>>> openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.8.dev346.el6ost.noarch.rpm that you
>>>> directed me to. Unfortunately it appears it requires RHEL 6.4.
>>>>
>>>> "OS support check... Host 10.16.46.104: RHEL version not
>>>> supported.
>>>> RHEL >6.4 required"
>>>>
>>>> RHEL 6.4 is not unavailable in RHN at this time. I believe that
>>>> anyone outside of Red Hat trying to use the Folsom installation
>>>> documentation might conclude that they could use packstack and
>>>> RHEL
>>>> 6.3,
>>
>>>> but I'm worried they would run into this same problem that I
>>>> have encountered and not be able to complete installation using
>>>> packstack. Is the correct action:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Amend the installation documentation at access.redhat.com to
>>>> remove the references to packstack until
>>>> openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.8.dev346.el6ost.noarch.rpm and RHEL
>>>> 6.4 are available in RHN.
>>
>> RHEL 6.4 is not yet GA, but we want to make sure that users of RHOS
>> 2.1
>> are starting with at least RHEL 6.4 Beta, which is available on
>> RHN/CDN
>>
>> So if you're using RHEL 6.3, that error message is valid.  Best to
>> start
>> with the RHEL 6.4 Beta.
>>
>> The docs do instruct users on enabling the beta repositories:
>> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_OpenStack_Preview/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/ch02.html
>>
>> But if you're using PackStack, it probably doesn't set the priorities
>> properly for the Beta channel and it also probably doesn't enable
>> that
>> channel by default.
>>
>> Derek, thoughts on the above?
>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Continue to find the root cause of the issue I am encountering
>>>> with openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.5.dev318.el6ost.noarch and
>>>> RHEL
>>>> 6.3
>>
>> The second issue you hit is valid
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904670) and does need to
>> be
>> fixed.  It should be fixed in the next few weeks and pushed up to the
>> RHOS Folsom Preview channels.
>>
>> Perry
>>
>>
> 
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