[Crowbar] Crowbar hackday iso mysql proposal fail

[Bryan Taylor]

I tried the elegant solution and it worked.

Thank you,
Bryan

On 03/11/2012 12:07 PM, Andi_Abes at Dell.com wrote:
> On second take - Ignore those nasty workarounds!!!
>
> Poking some more, once the barclamp is imported, the nodes should be updated with the new barclaps' repositories on their next chef client run.
> You might just be a bit too fast, and try to deply mysql, before the system had a chance to update the repo list.
>
> So, either: take a break after import of the barclamps.  OR
> After you're done importing all the barclamps, but before deploying nodes, force a chef run with:
> knife ssh "name:d*" chef-client.
>
> This will create the missing apt source lists, before those packages are required.
>
> (there seems to be an ordering problem - where if you add mysql, it gets put on the run list before the provisioner, which will update the sources... that's the real problem/fix)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Abes, Andi
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:55 AM
> To: btaylor at alpharender.net; crowbar
> Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar hackday iso mysql proposal fail
>
> So, this is appears to be a side affect of the import and refactoring of the packages on the admin node to make it more sane.... (this is brand new stuff!!)
>
> Here are a few possible workarounds:
>
> * bad hack:
> On the admin, cd /tftpboot/ubuntu-12.04/crowbar-extra
> Copy the files from all the subdirectories into this one.
> Then run:
> # dpkg-scanpackages . |gzip -9>Packages.gz # knife ssh 'node:*' apt-get update
>
> * elegant solution, but more work (this is what will be happening once we fix it) On the compute node (as root):
> Copy  /etc/apt/sources.list/10-barclamp-crowbar.list to 10-barclamp-mysql.list in the same location.
> Edit the new file, and update crowbar to mysql at the end of the url.
>
> Run apt-get update.
> Re-run chef-client
> Mysql installs happily
>
> If you have multiple nodes to do this on, you can use knife ssh to apply to them all.
> Also, it seems that you'd need to do this for each imported barclamp. You could update the files, and run apt-get update and chef client only once.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps, and thanks for reporting !
>
> (making excuses section - If you build the ISO with the barclamps, you will not have this issue - we were developing in parallel paths while getting ready for the fest).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Bryan Taylor
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:55 AM
> To: crowb
> Subject: [Crowbar] Crowbar hackday iso mysql proposal fail
>
> Hello,
>
>    I am trying to follow the hackday youtube videos plus the VMware workstation install guide. I have setup admin node and two VMs which are both ready. I also imported the barclamps. I tried to build the proposal onto node1 but it fails stating from the logs:
>
> FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Package: package[mysql-ruby] (mysql::client line 39) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package:No version specified, and no candidate version available for libmysql-ruby.
>
>
> I tried adding the Mysql-client option to node-1 which is where I believe the dep for libmysql-ruby comes from. I tried to remove mysql-server and just provision node-1 with mysql-client, then go back and apply with with mysql-server. Unfortunately this does not work either.
>
> Help
>
> Bryan
>
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