AjaxTerm refer to a unexistant folder "tools" with the Ubuntu packaging

Which version of ubuntu do You use? Which version of nova?

Sorry,
I use Ubuntu LTS 10.04 server and the trunk of Nova 2011.1~bzr635-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1

I suspect this is being ignored by setup.py

On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Edouard Thuleau wrote:

> Sorry,
> I use Ubuntu LTS 10.04 server and the trunk of Nova 2011.1~bzr635-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1
>
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> Title:
> AjaxTerm refer to a unexistant folder "tools" with the Ubuntu
> packaging
>
> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
> New
> Status in “nova” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Using Ubuntu packages, when we request an ajax console, the driver try
> to access the folder /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/tools to lunch the
> command "ajaxterm.py". But this folder doesn't exist and isn't
> packaged with Nova.
>
>

No, it's not ignored by setup.py but tools/ is not installed in the Ubuntu packaging.

however there still is an issue in nova itself, I think: code is calling
'%s/tools/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py --command "%s" -t %s -p %s' % (utils.novadir(), ajaxterm_cmd, token, port)

This is valid when running from the tarball or the branch but does not degrade gracefully when you explode the package in FHS locations (ends up looking for the tools directory under /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/tools).

This is currently handled by a patch during deb generation, but I still think it's a bug: A clean fix IMO would involve packaging ajaxterm and using it as a dependency instead of copying it to the nova tools folder. It's not currently in pypi, so would an acceptable fix be to get ajaxterm packaged separately and added as a nova dependency?

This was fixed in the Apr 15th patch as mentioned by Brian, looks good to me