openstack-manuals

in OpenStack Install and Deploy Manual - Essex, when change owner of /etc/nova, document mistype

Bug #1026890 reported by zhouliang on 2012-07-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	openstack-manuals	Fix Released	High	Anne Gentle

Bug Description

In the following link,
http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/install/apt/content/compute-minimum-configuration-settings.html
Before start nova-* service as nova user, you need to change user nova to be the directory owner of /etc/nova,
it should be:
chown -R nova:root /etc/nova
but the document was mistyped as:
chown -R root:nova /etc/nova

Tags:

Anne Gentle (annegentle) on 2012-07-21

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

Anne Gentle (annegentle) on 2012-07-23

Changed in openstack-manuals:
assignee:	nobody → Anne Gentle (annegentle)

Revision history for this message

Anne Gentle (annegentle) wrote on 2012-07-23:

If chown is username:group then isn't the username root and the group nova?

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Tom Fifield (fifieldt) wrote on 2012-07-28:

Hi,

I believe the documentation here is confusing.

The steps highlighted by ZhouLiang are actually unnecessary for most installations. I believe that ZhouLiang was pointing out that they are wrong for the 'most installations' case.

If I'm correct, perhaps we can do something to highlight the "if you are installing as another user" part of this paragraph, or move it somewhere less prominent ?

Anne Gentle (annegentle) on 2012-08-28

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote on 2012-08-28: Fix proposed to openstack-manuals (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/12063

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote on 2012-08-28: Fix proposed to openstack-manuals (stable/essex)

Fix proposed to branch: stable/essex
Review: https://review.openstack.org/12070

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote on 2012-08-30: Fix merged to openstack-manuals (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/12063
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/e4590114c47801842faf70bc343522428535f180
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit e4590114c47801842faf70bc343522428535f180
Author: annegentle <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Aug 28 13:20:13 2012 -0500

Bug fixes for install and config

    bug 1017767 - adds comment about guest/guest defaults for rabbitmq
    in sample glance conf file
    bug 1026890 - added note about nova.conf file ownership being exception
    bug 1042847 - looks like these are addressed in master but not in stable/essex;
    will backport this patch as it is okay for both folsom and essex docs

Change-Id: I8625bc85341276225d738eea189f71ce9e2c672e