Ubuntu LTS 10.04 server, using the curent glance package from ppa:nova-core/milestone-proposed, version 2011.3~d1~20110531.139-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1
After installing glance with 'apt-get', the daemon failed to start. Checking the logs shows the following
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/glance-api", line 60, in <module>
conf, app = config.load_paste_app('glance-api', options, args)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/glance/common/config.py", line 279, in load_paste_app
setup_logging(options, conf)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/glance/common/config.py", line 168, in setup_logging
logfile = logging.FileHandler(logfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 819, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 838, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/glance/api.log'
$ ls -l /var/log/glance
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7799 2011-09-13 17:20 /var/log/glance/api.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 glance nogroup 3449 2011-09-13 17:20 /var/log/glance/registry.log
After 'chown glance:nogroup /var/log/glance/api.log', and restarting the service, the daemon appears to be running fine and is listening on its port.
This was fixed in the Ubuntu packages in 2011.3~d2-0ubuntu1, revision 8 in lp:ubuntu/glance