dev-quickstart guide recommends fake_ipmitool driver, but ipmitool is absent on dev machines

Bug #1387495 reported by Arun S A G
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ironic
Fix Released
Medium
Peeyush Gupta

Bug Description

ironic-conductor barfs and errors out if ipmitool is not installed on the machine. Not all installations of Fedora/RHEL has ipmitool installed by default. Update the dev-quickstart guide so that ipmitool rpm package is added as one of the dependencies.

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/dev/dev-quickstart.html

Arun S A G (sagarun)
description: updated
Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt)
Changed in ironic:
assignee: nobody → Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt)
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → New
assignee: Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

Developer QuickStart is not a production installation guide and should not mention IPMI (you don't have IPMI on your laptop or VM's).
Conductor has problems because of the following step in http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/dev/dev-quickstart.html#exercising-the-services-locally:
sed -i "s/#enabled_drivers=pxe_ipmitool/enabled_drivers=fake_ipmitool/" etc/ironic/ironic.conf.local
which should enable fake driver instead of fake_ipmitool and should be
sed -i "s/#enabled_drivers=pxe_ipmitool/enabled_drivers=fake/" etc/ironic/ironic.conf.local

summary: - ipmitool should be added as a dependency in dev-quickstart guide
+ dev-quickstart guide recommends fake_ipmitool driver, but ipmitool is
+ absent on dev machines
Changed in ironic:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt)
Changed in ironic:
assignee: nobody → Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt)
Changed in ironic:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in ironic:
assignee: Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt) → Lucas Alvares Gomes (lucasagomes)
Changed in ironic:
assignee: Lucas Alvares Gomes (lucasagomes) → Peeyush Gupta (peeygupt)
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to ironic (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/132588
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic/commit/?id=13479949712ad6bcc75ccd80e76688c10288e3d6
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 13479949712ad6bcc75ccd80e76688c10288e3d6
Author: Peeyush Gupta <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Nov 15 17:03:36 2014 +0530

    Add ipmitool as dependency on RHEL/Fedora systems

    Conductor has problems if ipmitool is absent on dev
    machines. So add ipmitool as install prerequisite.

    Closes-Bug: #1387495
    Change-Id: I0f52f63ab2478634f6650657fd120e14a9b7925b

Changed in ironic:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in ironic:
milestone: none → kilo-1
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in ironic:
milestone: kilo-1 → 2015.1.0
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