ec2 api tools (ec2-api-tools-1.3-42584) not working against 1.6

[Daniel Nurmi]

nurmi@gibson:~/Desktop/suseclc$ ec2-describe-instances
Unexpected error:
org.codehaus.xfire.fault.XFireFault: Unexpected character 'F' (code 70) in prolog; expected '<'
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1]
 at org.codehaus.xfire.fault.XFireFault.createFault(XFireFault.java:89)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.Client.onReceive(Client.java:410)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel.sendViaClient(HttpChannel.java:139)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel.send(HttpChannel.java:48)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.OutMessageSender.invoke(OutMessageSender.java:26)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.HandlerPipeline.invoke(HandlerPipeline.java:131)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:79)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:114)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.Client.invoke(Client.java:336)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.XFireProxy.handleRequest(XFireProxy.java:77)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.XFireProxy.invoke(XFireProxy.java:57)
 at $Proxy12.describeInstances(Unknown Source)
 at com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.Jec2.describeInstances(Jec2.java:975)
 at com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.Jec2.describeInstances(Jec2.java:939)
 at com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.cmd.DescribeInstances.invokeOnline(DescribeInstances.java:49)
 at com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.cmd.BaseCmd.invoke(BaseCmd.java:689)
 at com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.cmd.DescribeInstances.main(DescribeInstances.java:58)
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character 'F' (code 70) in prolog; expected '<'
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1]
 at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedChar(StreamScanner.java:623)
 at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2047)
 at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1069)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.soap.handler.ReadHeadersHandler.invoke(ReadHeadersHandler.java:44)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.handler.HandlerPipeline.invoke(HandlerPipeline.java:131)
 at org.codehaus.xfire.client.Client.onReceive(Client.java:406)
 ... 15 more

[Daniel Nurmi (nurmi)]

preliminary report:

work
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ec2-describe-instances
ec2-describe-volumes
ec2-describe-group
ec2-describe-keypairs
ec2-describe-images
ec2-describe-addresses

ec2-run-instances
ec2-get-console-output
ec2-terminate-instances

ec2-add-keypair
ec2-delete-keypair

ec2-create-volume
ec2-attach-volume
ec2-detach-volume
ec2-delete-volume

ec2-create-snapshot
ec2-delete-snapshot

ec2-authorize
ec2-revoke

ec2-allocate-address
ec2-associate-address
ec2-disassociate-address
ec2-release-address

ec2-add-group
ec2-delete-group

ec2-register
ec2-deregister

no work
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ec2-describe-availability-zones
ec2-describe-snapshots

[Martin Patterson (martin-gear6)]

Breakage also in the ami tools ec2-ami-tools-1.3-34544 with Eucalyptus 1.6.

Backrevving to:
 . ec2-api-tools-1.3-26369
 . ec2-ami-tools-1.3-26357

works around the problem.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Assigning to Dan, upstream is working this. Dan will notify us when this is fixed and we can merge from upstream.

[chris grzegorczyk (chris-grze)]

------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 1176
committer: decker <decker@hawaii>
branch nick: 1.6.2
timestamp: Fri 2010-02-05 04:17:25 -0800
message:
  fixes for common operations to restore client compatibility for ec2 41510, 41620, 42584, 45772, 46266.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package eucalyptus - 1.6.2~bzr1166-0ubuntu6

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eucalyptus (1.6.2~bzr1166-0ubuntu6) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from upstream bzr revision, should fix:
    - LP: #475354 - send correct hostname in metadata service
    - LP: #461464 - fix ec2 tools compatibility
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:51:58 -0800