Glance fail to alert when rados packages are not installed

[Yogev Rabl]

Description of problem:
When the Glance is configure to work with rbd backend (Ceph) & the Rados packages (python-ceph) are not installed the Error that the Glance's logs show is:

2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/glance/api/v1/upload_utils.py", line 99, in upload_data_to_store
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils store)
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/glance/store/__init__.py", line 380, in store_add_to_backend
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils (location, size, checksum, metadata) = store.add(image_id, data, size)
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/glance/store/rbd.py", line 319, in add
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils with rados.Rados(conffile=self.conf_file, rados_id=self.user) as conn:
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'Rados'
2014-07-07 11:28:27.982 2222 TRACE glance.api.v1.upload_utils

Instead of catching an import error, the Glance should fail on the count of lack of Rados packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-glance-2014.1-4.el7ost.noarch
python-glanceclient-0.12.0-1.el7ost.noarch
openstack-glance-2014.1-4.el7ost.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure the glance to work with rbd backend (see http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/?highlight=openstack). without installing the python-ceph packages.
2. try to create a new image.

Actual results:
The Glance catch an import error.

Expected results:
The Glance should alert that the Rados packages are missing.

[Erno Kuvaja (jokke)]

Actually the bindings need is clearly documented here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/configuring.html#configuring-the-rbd-storage-backend

I do not see point to keep this bug open.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Flavio Percoco (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/120014

[Walt Boring (walter-boring)]

fwiw I just ran into this issue too.

The docs link in comment #1 is now invalid.

The solution is to install the python-rados package (in ubuntu)