install-guie: the signing_dir configuration (proxy-server.conf) is not correct

[keshava]

The instruction for creating /home/swift is missing.
Without this , proxy service fails with the error -

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs^M
    mkdir(name, mode)^M
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/swift'^M

Need to
1. create /home/swift
2. provide permissions - chown -R swift:swift /home/swift

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Built: 2014-06-08T02:38:02 00:00
git SHA: 66f37758fe6c22aa9ca4f0afd1f4892c5a098ebd
URL: http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/install-guide/install/apt/content/installing-and-configuring-the-proxy-node.html
source File: file:/home/jenkins/workspace/openstack-manuals-tox-doc-publishdocs/doc/install-guide/object-storage/section_object-storage-install-config-proxy-node.xml
xml:id: installing-and-configuring-the-proxy-node

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

I'm not sure that this /home/swift problem comes from the doc. Maybe you already have a swift user on your system, and it's home dir is /home/swift?
I'm going to run a test on my ubuntu 14.04 system to see if it happens here too.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

So the home dir problem is really happening... I think it's a packaging problem, and not a doc problem. But we should probably document the workaround keshava suggested.

Thanks!

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

I investigated a bit more, in fact this is a doc bug. The signing_dir in our proxy-server.conf sample is not properly defined. It shouldn't be in /home. We could remove this config, the default is fine.

Sorry about the noise...

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/100057

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/100057
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/?id=abed3e59e159136b39a498a013983d0cf9efded9
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit abed3e59e159136b39a498a013983d0cf9efded9
Author: Keshava Bharadwaj <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jun 14 18:18:29 2014 +0530

    Corrects proxy server conf in swift install guide

    The install and configuration guide for object storage has
    proxy-server.conf contents with /home/swift/keystone-signing as
    signing directory. Without the directory being available swift proxy
    service is unable to start. Signing directory is a temporary cache
    directory which defaults to /tmp. Hence removing this entry makes
    /tmp as default signing directory. This patch removes signing_dir
    option to make swift use /tmp as signing directory implicitly.

    Change-Id: I8b9b70b30af2767f48705acb14329833179b96fc
    Closes-Bug: #1329798

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/icehouse
Review: https://review.openstack.org/101091

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/101091
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/?id=644d42713de489a56de27fe57fa116f961b954dd
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/icehouse

commit 644d42713de489a56de27fe57fa116f961b954dd
Author: Keshava Bharadwaj <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jun 14 18:18:29 2014 +0530

    Corrects proxy server conf in swift install guide

    The install and configuration guide for object storage has
    proxy-server.conf contents with /home/swift/keystone-signing as
    signing directory. Without the directory being available swift proxy
    service is unable to start. Signing directory is a temporary cache
    directory which defaults to /tmp. Hence removing this entry makes
    /tmp as default signing directory. This patch removes signing_dir
    option to make swift use /tmp as signing directory implicitly.

    Change-Id: I8b9b70b30af2767f48705acb14329833179b96fc
    Closes-Bug: #1329798
    (cherry picked from commit abed3e59e159136b39a498a013983d0cf9efded9)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-manuals 15.0.0 release.