Error: 'No such file or directory' while installing ceilometer

[Madhuri Kumari]

While installing ceilometer as stated http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/install/manual.html, we need to copy ceilometer.conf.sample to /etc/ceilometer but there is no such configuration file in etc/ceilometer directory.

#cp etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf.sample /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf
cp: cannot stat `etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf.sample': No such file or directory

Moreover, when we run 'tox -egenconfig' stated in etc/ceilometer/ README-ceilometer.conf.txt, it gives an error:

# tox -egenconfig
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tox", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('tox==1.7.0', 'console_scripts', 'tox')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_cmdline.py", line 25, in main
    config = parseconfig(args, 'tox')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 47, in parseconfig
    parseini(config, inipath)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 281, in __init__
    config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 346, in _makeenvconfig
    vc.commands = reader.getargvlist(section, "commands")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 518, in getargvlist
    commandlist.append(self._processcommand(current_command))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 550, in _processcommand
    new_word = self._replace(word)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 666, in _replace
    return RE_ITEM_REF.sub(self._replace_match, x)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 662, in _replace_match
    return handler(match)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 633, in _replace_substitution
    val = self._substitute_from_other_section(sub_key)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox/_config.py", line 627, in _substitute_from_other_section
    "substitution key %r not found" % key)
tox.ConfigError: ConfigError: substitution key 'posargs' not found

[ZhiQiang Fan (aji-zqfan)]

tox 1.6.1 is ok, but tox 1.7.x is broken for openstack projects, the latest code of tox has solved this issue but not been published yet.

you can run `sudo pip install tox==1.6.1' to downgrade tox

see also:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2014-February/005421.html
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/150/posargs-configerror
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/commits/169574bf58a499d179ece389b75a83ee8b6fba4a

the documentation should be upgrade to mention the tox -egenconfig and the tox version problem

thanks

[Madhuri Kumari (madhuri-rai07)]

Hi ZhiQiang Fan,

Thanks. The tox issue has resolved.

But what about the first erro? There is no ceilometer.conf.sample in git repository.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/94324

[Madhuri Kumari (madhuri-rai07)]

Thanks ZhiQiang Fan

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/94324
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/commit/?id=9ea466fc2f10f4ef2b1d815c6eba2eb1c471e489
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 9ea466fc2f10f4ef2b1d815c6eba2eb1c471e489
Author: ZhiQiang Fan <email address hidden>
Date: Tue May 20 16:40:43 2014 +0800

    Update doc for sample config file issue

    Since we have removed the ceilometer.conf.sample file, we should
    update the documentation too.

    Change-Id: I93ff8bf2f3332d15495d45a5e55e6252da639302
    Closes-Bug: #1320761