[SRU] upon creating a node via juju & orchestra, etckeeper hangs

I've uploaded cloud-init.log and cloud-init-output.log files from the node that juju was bootstrapping, when this hung I ssh'ed to the node and killed off the whiptail process that was causing it to hang.

my environments.yaml:

juju: environments
environments:
  orchestra:
    type: orchestra
    # Specify the orchestra server (santol's IP address)
    orchestra-server: 10.230.5.50
    # Specify storage. In this case we are using webdav installed by orchestra.
    storage-url: http://10.230.5.50/webdav
    # Specify cobbler's usr/pass
    orchestra-user: cobbler
    orchestra-pass: ubuntu
    admin-secret: fooooo
    # Branch from where we will install juju
    # juju-branch: lp:juju
    # Mangement classes
    acquired-mgmt-class: orchestra-juju-acquired
    available-mgmt-class: orchestra-juju-available
    default-series: oneiric

On the node, if I check with bzr or etc keeper the state of /etc it seems there are uncommited changes related to zookeeper and java

I believe this is likely an issue with etckeeper, not orchestra itself, so adding it as an affected package. When I experienced the issue, I had to stop the 'tty1' upstart job and confirm etckeeper's error that it had problems committing. I believe the issue may be related to files with names or contents that don't agree with the locale of the box.

To be clear, it was 100% repeatable by simply deploying 11.10 with any charm using juju + orchestra.

I believe this is a duplicate of Bug #791839, where etckeeper is failing for similar reasons when run non-interactively from a cronjob.

Basically, bzr is failing to handle UTF8 filenames, due to an incorrect or unspecified local/language setting.

This bug was fixed in the package orchestra - 2.21-0ubuntu2

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orchestra (2.21-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Drop recommends on etckeeper, which caused juju
    deployments to hang. (LP: #872553)
 -- Dave Walker (Daviey) <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:29:17 +0100

Invalid against Orchestra. Bug was in etckeeper, itself.

Hello Tom, or anyone else affected,

Accepted etckeeper into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Hi Martin,

I added a post script to pull in etckeeper, since the update to orchestra removed the recommends on it. I then noticed that there is no updated package of bzr or etckeeper in oneiric-proposed.

Infact, I don't see any content at all in oneiric-proposed's Packages.gz or .bz2... issue with pushing into that part of the archive at the moment?

Tom,

etckeeper 0.56ubuntu2.1 is in oneiric-proposed:
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etckeeper

etckeeper (0.56ubuntu2.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * etckeeper: LP: #872553, #791839
    - ensure that LANG is set, default to UTF8, necessary for bzr to
      function properly in non-interactive shells (eg, cron); user's
      local LANG will override if set
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:18:25 -0500

Dustin

Doh, brain fail at that time in the morning... I was adding backports.. testing shortly.

I added proposed in post and made sure it was installed before juju and the problem is fixed.

ubuntu@ch02b12:~$ apt-cache policy etckeeper
etckeeper:
  Installed: 0.56ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 0.56ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.56ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.56ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

Could we now add etckeeper back to be a recommends of orchestra-client?

Thanks all!

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 0.56ubuntu2.1

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etckeeper (0.56ubuntu2.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * etckeeper: LP: #872553, #791839
    - ensure that LANG is set, default to UTF8, necessary for bzr to
      function properly in non-interactive shells (eg, cron); user's
      local LANG will override if set
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:18:25 -0500