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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got it working, with some hiccups.  This documents what I did in case 
someone comes along to try it themselves.

1) I use an 8-core set up on ec2.  In my ~/.juju/environments.yaml I 
have "default: big-ec2" and then big-ec2 looks something like this:

  big-ec2:
    type: ec2
    control-bucket: juju-[UUID goes here]
    admin-secret: [secret goes here]
    access-key: [key goes here]
    secret-key: [secret key goes here]
    default-series: precise
    juju-origin: ppa
    default-instance-type: m2.4xlarge
    default-image-id: [64bit ebs image id from 
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/ goes here]

I personally use "python -c 'import uuid; print uuid.uuid4()'" to 
generate those uuids, fwiw.

2) The image I had, and the apt sources configured, only had up to lxc 
release 45.  We need 47 or higher.  It turns out I used a beta 1 image; 
maybe if I had used a beta 2 image 
(http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/) it would have 
been fixed.  I manually changed my apt sources to the sources I use on 
my own machine (the official Ubuntu sources) rather than the ec2 
version, and then did an update/upgrade.  This gave me lxc version 48. 
I did this before setuplxc had a chance to make an lxc, so then the 
slave started up fine.

3) "juju expose buildbot-master" didn't work for some reason for me.  It 
had before.  It said it performed the right thing, but then I couldn't 
see the web page on 8010.  I ended up manually making a change in the 
AWS console to the appropriate security group.  I didn't know if this 
was maybe because of some idiosyncracy of what I had done (the master 
had an earlier problem in lpbuildbot--a SyntaxError in the 
master.cfg--that I fixed and I'm not mentioning it here because it 
shouldn't affect the next person).  If the broken expose happens again, 
we should investigate.

Tests are running now (with --shuffle).  I'll report back the results 
when I have them (in an hour or so, hopefully!)

Gary