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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

If you updated the ephemeral image, you should simply need to
power-cycle the machines in 'Commissioning' state and the process should
now complete successfully. The nodes should appear as 'Ready' afterwards.

Cheers

On 12-04-17 01:58 PM, Michael Hughes wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer Francis. I tried that solution yesterday per
> Robbie Williamson's suggestion (hi Robbie!) but the directory
> structure was not valid (i.e.: somewhere around 'ephemeral/' the
> folders in the solution didn't match those on my system. For the
> record, I was using yesterday's daily build of 12.04 with both the
> Stable and Testing PPAs of MAAS installed.)
> 
> The folder structure explained in the linked bug exists in my current
> build (using this morning's 12.04 daily build of Server and no
> additional PPAs,) but after throwing some perl locale warnings it
> completes with:
> "Leaving 'diversion of /etc/init/ureadahead.conf to
> /etc/init/ureadahead.conf.disabled by cloud-init'
> and I notice nothing new in my web interface. Do I need to
> reinstall/reconfigure MAAS at this point, and if so how?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Mike
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Francis J. Lacoste
> <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12-04-17 10:00 AM, Michael Hughes wrote:
>>> Hi Devels. I'm trying to follow along with the MAAS wiki:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS but I must be missing
>>> something because I never get the opportunity to Accept & Commission
>>> the nodes. It just says 'Commissioning' without progressing.
>>>
>>> My attempts consisted of:
>>>  - Download and install the latest daily build of Precise 64-bit
>>> choosing "Ubuntu MAAS Installation" from the install menu
>>>  - apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
>>>  - Follow the steps on the above wiki to build and activate the MAAS server
>>>
>>> I also tried adding the Stable, Testing, and Dailybuild MAAS PPAs
>>> prior to upgrading. Stable and Testing compiled fine: my three nodes
>>> were able to be added via MAC address and booted to PXE, but the web
>>> management page never showed the Accept & Commission button for my
>>> nodes. Dailybuilds failed to install citing authentication errors.
>>> Reading the archives I see Testing isn't appropriate, and I didn't
>>> expect Dailybuild to work without glitches, but thought Stable would
>>> be a close match to the wiki. If not, where are the screenshots on the
>>> wiki coming from?
>>>
>>
>> That's because the ephemeral image uses the latest released version
>> which is beta2. Unfortunately, the version of cloud-init in beta2
>> doesn't know about MAAS yet.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/+bug/981845
>>
>> Comment #2 there has the work-around. You basically need to upgrade
>> cloud-init in the ephemeral images used for commissioning.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more help.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Francis J. Lacoste
>> francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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