[Bug 1319600] [NEW] maas command line client brittle to unexpected inputs

[Julian Edwards]

On 15/05/14 09:22, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> The maas command line client is brittle to unexpected inputs. On trusty,
> I tried to run the 'sudo maas createsuperuser' command that I used on
> precise, quantal, and saucy, but it failed. I wanted detailed help, so I
> ran 'maas -h', and that dumped a stack trace because the file
> /home/ubuntu/.maascli.db was owned by root. I tried running a bare
> 'maas' to get help, and that gave an error message with instruction to
> run a command that isn't actually executable.
> 
> I expected the 'createsuperuser' command to be useful -- hints about its
> replacement would be welcome.

On this page
http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs1.5/install.html
It says to run "sudo maas-region-admin createadmin ..."

Is there any reason you missed that that we can help to fix?

(In the last release, the maas command was renamed to maas-region-admin,
and maas-cli to maas, which has caused some confusion)

> I expected a simple error message if a database file isn't readable
> rather than a stack trace.
> 
> I expected some simple help regardless of database ownership.

This should have happened without the stacktrace, and is the real bug
here.  I will amend the title accordingly.

> I expected the advice about getting help to be usable with copy-and-
> paste.

Please file a separate bug for that.

(Also please file bugs on the upstream maas project)

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  maas-cli stack trace if .maascli.db unreadable

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