Various services doesn't output error to log when fails on parsing conf

[Jaroslav Henner]

Syntactically invalid conf leads to silent death of, at least, quantum nova and keystone.

[root@master-02 ~]# echo 'I am evil as hell.' >> /etc/quantum/plugin.ini
[root@master-02 ~]# tail -fn0 /var/log/quantum/linuxbridge-agent.log &
[2] 16976
[root@master-02 ~]# /etc/init.d/quantum-linuxbridge-agent restart
Stopping quantum-linuxbridge-agent: [ OK ]
Starting quantum-linuxbridge-agent: [ OK ]
[root@master-02 ~]# /etc/init.d/quantum-linuxbridge-agent status
quantum-linuxbridge-agent dead but pid file exists
[root@master-02 ~]# kill %
[root@master-02 ~]#

No message. Only death.

[Davanum Srinivas (DIMS) (dims-v)]

If i run say nova-api from the command line i do see the error

dims@dims-desktop:~$ echo 'I am evil as hell.' > /etc/nova/nova.conf
dims@dims-desktop:~$ /usr/local/bin/nova-api
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/nova-api", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('nova==2013.2.a1037.g8df26b7', 'console_scripts', 'nova-api')()
  File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/cmd/api.py", line 40, in main
    config.parse_args(sys.argv)
  File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/config.py", line 37, in parse_args
    default_config_files=default_config_files)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo/config/cfg.py", line 1180, in __call__
    self._parse_config_files()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo/config/cfg.py", line 1651, in _parse_config_files
    raise ConfigFileParseError(pe.filename, str(pe))
oslo.config.cfg.ConfigFileParseError: Failed to parse /etc/nova/nova.conf: at /etc/nova/nova.conf:1, No ':' or '=' found in assignment: 'I am evil as hell.'
dims@dims-desktop:~$ echo $?
1

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

Since the logging configuration is typically in that config file, I'm not sure what we can do about this. Suggestions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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