Discussion between Adam Collard and Riccardo Magrini

9:27 AM

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Q: how to install landscape server LDS (Dedicated Server) on ubuntu 14.04lts via ppa?

I'd like to install and test Landscape Dedicated Server (LDS) on my Ubuntu 14.04lts server edition but I don't know how to make that. The only guides I found on Internet are just for Landascape client, anyone can help me,please? thanks in advance B.R. Riccardo

Adam Collard

You should take a look at the excellent answer given in this [question][1] [1]: askubuntu.com/a/550625/1102

Riccardo Magrini

I've already read that. The solution is for an ubuntu 14.10 I'd like to install Landscape on ubuntu 14.04Lts.

Adam Collard

I think you've misunderstood that answer. The solution is for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it's using the 14.10 release of Landscape.

Riccardo Magrini

I didn't see any note about 14.04, then i've tried to add that ppa but ireceive this error "Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:landscape/14.10'. Please check that the PPA name or format is correct. " I think it's not adapt for 14.04

Adam Collard

Can you check you have python-software-properties installed? Try running the add-apt-repository line with -m for debugging

Riccardo Magrini

9:27 AM

I know that: for <= 12.04 sudo apt-get install python-software-properties. While for >= 12.10 sudo apt-get install software-properties-common.. I've already upgrade MaaS adding ppa using the second solution. I've check that seeing also this guide pricklytech.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/…

Adam Collard

Hi Riccardo, what problems are you still having?

Riccardo Magrini

Hi Adam, thanks in advance for support

I'm try to install Canonical Distribution but I've met some problems. the first one has been about the installation of MaaS. The main guide suggest ot use the command line but making in this way I've received the problem (askubuntu.com/questions/552383/…) and I've resolved that install MaaS directly via ISO file. Then I've continue with the guide upgraded the MaaS and adding the ppa repositoryes

Adam Collard

hmm, I think you might run in to some problems using MAAS from the ISO, since it's an older version

can you check which version you have installed for me? dpkg-query -W maas

I encountered a similar issue with MAAS before, I wonder if you might also be hitting it. See bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1382774

Riccardo Magrini

after that the guide suggests to open Landscape but I thought that it has installed in automatic but nothing. At this point I thought to install Landscape but I didn' see any guide to install LDS on ubuntu 14.04

Adam Collard

9:42 AM

Am I right in assuming you're trying to follow the instructions on ubuntu.com/download/cloud/install-ubuntu-openstack ?

Riccardo Magrini

let me check it is 1.7

yes I'm following that

my problem is on step 4 when it speaks about the installation of Openstack and Landascape

Adam Collard

OK, then you shouldn't need to install LDS manually, running openstack-install line will do it for you

right

Riccardo Magrini

I presume that I've already installed Landscape on my machine ....

Adam Collard

so you've run step 4? and followed it through?

Riccardo Magrini

I did it and I've set evething it needs.. the last steps was has been that pasteboard.co/1XDktZhU.png

after to fill in all values the installer exited for that....

"from that"

Adam Collard

9:49 AM

sounds like something broke :/

Riccardo Magrini

what?

Adam Collard

can you paste the contents of ~/.cloud-install/commands.log ?

that installer shouldn't "just exit"

Riccardo Magrini

one second let me take that..

yes after that it exited from that

Adam Collard

np

Riccardo Magrini

in attached you find all log file paste.ubuntu.com/9229662

Adam Collard

9:55 AM

OK I think I see the error

in pasteboard.co/1XDktZhU.png instead of putting in http://1.1.2.254/MAAS use 1.1.2.254 e.g. the IP not a URL

Riccardo Magrini

if you check the guide it needs of x.x.x.x/MAAS

as end point

I can try that...I've to need some minutes to remove openstack and repeat that steps

Adam Collard

please let me know how you get on. If that works, I will get the instructions updated (it seems they've gotten out of sync with the codebase)

Riccardo Magrini

ok let me make that just second

Adam Collard

FWIW I just checked the code and I think that using the IP is correct, will wait to hear from you :)

Riccardo Magrini

10:14 AM

attached you some screenshots anyway with your suggest it seems work

Adam Collard

where did you put the screenshots? I don't see any links?

Riccardo Magrini

pasteboard.co/1XF7Gx54.png, pasteboard.co/1XF9SqOV.png, pasteboard.co/1XFcq8rH.png, pasteboard.co/1XFdXLl5.png, pasteboard.co/1XFhcZvZ.png after that here is another error pasteboard.co/1XFjXflf.png

this is the log paste.ubuntu.com/9229999

Adam Collard

thanks. I'm looking

what sort of hardware are you using? is it "normal" Intel/AMD 64 bit?

also do you have any sort of http proxy between that machine and the internet?

Riccardo Magrini

10:51 AM

yes my machine is a 64 bit and all infrastructure is realized on a virtual environment via virt-manager and kvm

I've created a vm where is present a VIrtual Interface in NAT to navigate and download the iso file from MaaS then on it I've added the repositories as reported on that guide

Adam are you still here?

Adam Collard

I am

trying to figure out why your juju bootstrap might have failed

i'm concerned that you're running this all on KVMs. That's an unsupported route :/

Riccardo Magrini

I was reading the log and it looks for juju

Adam Collard

you need 7 physical machines (as per step 1 of ubuntu.com/download/cloud/install-ubuntu-openstack)

if you want to further delve into why Juju can't bootstrap you could try running it on your machine, outside of the openstack installer

juju bootstrap --debug

Riccardo Magrini

ok let me add other vm

i've just 3, at moment

Riccardo Magrini

1:24 PM

Hi Adam, I'm sorry but I went out from my office. I'm finishing to deploy the vm...

Are y still here?+

Adam Collard

on and off :)

I want to be clear here, there is no supported path for installing the Canonical Distribution of OpenStack on VMs

we test, advice and support use of real physical machines

Riccardo Magrini

ok

if you are busy and don't support me....don't worry.until now you are very kind to help me!!!

this is could be a lab to see how to make that in virtualizzation environment

also for me it's just a lab, this is not a product environemnt

Riccardo Magrini

2:01 PM

ops....sorry for my English, I've just read now what I wrote you in last post, it's not a right sentence!!!

I'm finishing to commission the vm node. after that I'll try to re-install Openstack and I'll inform y about the result!!!

Adam Collard

2:16 PM

OK. I'm looking forward to hearing how you get on :)

Riccardo Magrini

3:41 PM

I finished now to commit all nodes now they are in ready status....try to re-install openstak

Adam, are you still here

Adam Collard

yes

Riccardo Magrini

4:05 PM

the situation now is this, pasteboard.co/1Y1X9rZM.png and the installer is this pasteboard.co/1Y1ZSybb.png and pasteboard.co/1Y22NLIK.png

while the command more ~/.cloud-install/commands.log has reported this log paste.ubuntu.com/9234730

Adam Collard

ok, so it seems that juju is now bootstrapping

(good!)

give it some time, and let's see what happens, it should have powered on one of your nodes in MAAS (to bootstrap Juju onto)

Riccardo Magrini

again fatal error after juju tried to make the bootstrapping

let me post the log status now

Adam Collard

:(

Riccardo Magrini

paste.ubuntu.com/9234808

the node has started but then off

Adam Collard

are you able to grab logs off of the node?

/var/log/cloud-init.log and /var/log/cloud-init-output.log are what would be useful to see

also, /var/log/maas/maas.log on the MAAS machine (for completeness)

Riccardo Magrini

4:15 PM

no 'n yes, i can start the node manually via MaaS but it'll start the installer of ubuntu.....

Adam Collard

that node is a physical machine or a KVM?

Riccardo Magrini

virtual

all infrastructure is virtual

all is build on KVM

In the past I configured something like that but I always change the bootstrap-timeout to 3600 because juju didn't finish to process

with the defaul value

Adam Collard

Let me refer you again to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18769915#18769915 we don't support installing this on VMs

Riccardo Magrini

ok

perfect, but if I want to try MaaS, Juju, Openstack, and Landscape this is the only way at moment I can to test them.

Adam Collard

:( sorry about that

so you won't be able to get the full Canonical Distribution experience without that hardware

Riccardo Magrini

4:26 PM

don't worry!! but before to present that to my boss I've to be sure about all steps.

Adam Collard

but with just a single machine you can still use the openstack-installer to get OpenStack (with all of OpenStack setup in VMs/containers)

Riccardo Magrini

I know that this is a limitation but at moment this one is the only solution

I though to simulate a host where to install hypervisor and on it the vm nodes

and to see all procedure to install each single component

dpb

Hi Riccardo -- You tried a juju bootstrap -v manually and it failed? Until that works, nothing else will work. Can you debug that first?

Adam Collard

sure

Riccardo Magrini

Hi dpb

Adam Collard

4:30 PM

dpb: Riccardo has all of his infrastructure virtualized. Even if we could get juju bootstrap working it would only move the failure on to a later stage

Riccardo Magrini

in another situation where I've already installed MaaS and Juju, they work perfectly and all run on a virtual enviroment. In this case trying to install Canonical Distribution I've recived this error. In the past I've always change the bootstrap-timeout to 3600 in environments.yaml and then run juju for the bootstrapping and it alway worked.

the .yaml file now report this paste.ubuntu.com/9235113

2 days go I've also try to follow the marco ceppi guide (marcoceppi.com/2014/06/…) and it worked for few time then after the reboot it was impossible to see the horizon login

dpb

Yes, as I mentioned -- will need full logs from juju bootstrap -v on the failing environment. probably would work better as a follow-on askubuntu question though.

Riccardo Magrini

let me try this I'll show you the log

the node is started

at moment I see just this:
Launching instance
WARNING picked arbitrary tools &{1.20.12-trusty-amd64 https://streams.canonical.com/juju/tools/releases/juju-1.20.12-trusty-amd64.tgz 043d952828a2358bc81a2c66f984c11e314bfd57931e0c8144310f67ada3c7c1 8121335}
- /MAAS/api/1.0/nodes/node-349b17ea-749c-11e4-b012-525400a73fcd/
Waiting for address
Attempting to connect to CanonicalDistributionSrvCCNode5.maas:22
Attempting to connect to CanonicalDistributionSrvCCNode5.maas:22
Attempting to connect to 1.1.2.18:22

dpb

normal so far

one thing

Riccardo Magrini

continue to go without problem

dpb

4:42 PM

you will want to use local addresses.

Private network

In the Internet addressing architecture, a private network is a network that uses private IP address space, following the standards set by RFC 1918 for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), and RFC 4193 for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). These addresses are commonly used for home, office, and enterprise local area networks (LANs), when globally routable addresses are not mandatory, or are not available for the intended network applications. Under IPv4, the private IP address spaces were originally defined in an effort to delay IPv4 address exhaustion, but they are also a feature of IPv6, the...

Riccardo Magrini

about 10 minute I've to go out from office how we can continue this discuss tomorrow morning? always you are available

dpb

1.1.2.18 is an internet routable address

Riccardo Magrini

it's a private it's just a test

because there is a NAT on interface

dpb

sure, just letting you know

Riccardo Magrini

the ubuntu installer to install the ubuntu

so the installer is installing the OS

tomorrow around 10:00 CEST

dpb

4:45 PM

riccardo: you should set all your nodes to use fastpath-installer as well

Riccardo Magrini

is fine for you?

dpb

that will be much faster

Riccardo Magrini

already done

dpb

I won't be in

but sure, continue and I'll check when I do get in

Riccardo Magrini

infact it is almost finished

dpb

4:46 PM

the results of the bootstrap will be interesting whatever time they are here. :)

Riccardo Magrini

the node has in shut down and on mass receive that error http://paste.ubuntu.com/9235249/ while on juju log this ERROR bootstrap failed: waited for 10m0s without being able to connect: ssh: connect to host 1.1.2.18 port 22: No route to host
Stopping instance...
Bootstrap failed, destroying environment
ERROR waited for 10m0s without being able to connect: ssh: connect to host 1.1.2.18 port 22: No route to host
i think is the time

now guys I've to go see tomorrow morning leave this chat open.. have a nice night!!!

i ' m so sory

dpb

5:11 PM

1) make sure you are using fastpath for all nodes (double check)

2) increase timeout

if you aren't using fastpath (curtain), this behavior would be expected.

when you said that you saw the installer on screen, it made me think you were probably still using the d-i

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