[Bug 1197745] [NEW] Rackspace authentication no longer supported

[Martin Packman]

Public bug reported:

I have my rackspace credentials sourced in my local environment, and
nova can no longer authenticate against the rackspace cloud.

$ nova --debug list
DEBUG (shell:768) 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'authenticate'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/novaclient/shell.py", line 765, in main
    OpenStackComputeShell().main(map(strutils.safe_decode, sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/novaclient/shell.py", line 695, in main
    self.cs.authenticate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/novaclient/v1_1/client.py", line 169, in authenticate
    self.client.authenticate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 332, in authenticate
    auth_url = self._plugin_auth(auth_url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/novaclient/client.py", line 392, in _plugin_auth
    self.auth_plugin.authenticate(self, auth_url)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'authenticate'
ERROR: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'authenticate'

There is a new plugin infrastructure for authenticating against non-
standard openstack clouds, but the rackspace compat code is gone from
the main python-novaclient codebase and the 'pyrax' project seems not to
be packaged for ubuntu.

<https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax>

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: python-novaclient 1:2.13.0-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-chromebook armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Thu Jul  4 11:15:45 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: python-novaclient
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-26 (158 days ago)

** Affects: python-novaclient (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug armhf raring

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