20090929.2 UEC install test

[Thierry Carrez]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:44:10PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> However my preliminary testing shows that eucalyptus needs to be
>>> stopped/started *after registration succeeded* to take the registration
>>> into account... I'll confirm that bug with the ISO install, when it will
>>> be published.
>>> [...]
>> A full 20090930.1 test failed to run instances.
>> There is some condition on the NC that makes it believe walrus is
>> running on 127.0.0.1, though it is reported as correctly registered on
>> the cluster side.
>>
>> I tried various ways to unregister and manually register it, to no
>> avail. This is late for fixing this for beta. So I made the decision to
>> revert to the previous known state, 20090930.
> 
> Just to be clear: if you're reverting to 20090930 as the candidate
> installation image, you need to roll back at least the Eucalyptus package to
> the same state, both for the sake of upgrades and so that we can re-roll new
> candidates with other last-minute fixes if necessary.

Yes. Dustin still wants to try to fix the registration issue, but I
can't see how we can get it sufficiently tested (on a full UEC run) for
beta release, and prefer to work on known issues at that point.

So beta should ship with -0ubuntu12, and 20090930.2 is likely to be the
final.

If Dustin manages to solve the issue and test it thoroughly on full UEC
install + instancerun tests, we have two options:

- respin CD and redo all tests (that's too late in my opinion)
- publish a ubuntu14 that people can upgrade to

If Dustin doesn't solve it or testing reveals more issues, the only
option is to publish a ubuntu14 that is functionally equivalent to 12.

What should be the cutoff time ? Pitti seems to hint that EU tomorrow
morning should be ok. If you want a 14=12 uploaded now, please confirm.

>> Running that release I could make it actually start instances. It's not
>> free of bugs, but at least we know how to document their workarounds.
>>
>> Here are the things against 20090930:
>>
>>  * Requires manual registration and restart of eucalyptus before it can
>> be used

Bugs 438602 and 439251

>>  * Starting an instance can fail with a 500 Walrus error

Bug 439410

>> I'll verify and file bugs for each.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to look over the test reports yet; are there other
> problem areas apart from Eucalyptus for beta?

There is an issue running the UEC image with the ramdisk published on
uec-images, bug 439415. If that can't be solved, I recommend pulling off
the kernels and ramdisks from there.

-- 
Thierry Carrez
Technical lead, Ubuntu server team || Canonical Ltd.