landscape module not working

[Matt Fischer]

I've been trying to boot a saucy guest and have been unable to get landscape configured properly. Following the landscape example, I've run into a few issues.

My first config was pretty full (like the example), but after lots of failures, I pared it down to this simple case:

#cloud-config
landscape:
  client:
    computer_title = fred
    account_name = example

When I do that, it writes out the landscape client conf like this:
client = computer_title = fred account_name = example

This is obviously incorrect and landscape complains thusly.

Am I doing this wrong or are the docs perhaps incorrect?

[David Britton (dpb)]

Hi --

I think your yaml is off under 'client', you need those to be properlly formatted key/value declarations with ':', not '='. See the following python interactive example to see the difference:

dpb@helo:cloudinit$ python
Python 2.7.5+ (default, Sep 19 2013, 13:48:49)
[GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.load("client:\n computer_title = fred\n account_name = example")
{'client': 'computer_title = fred account_name = example'}
>>> yaml.load("client:\n computer_title: fred\n account_name: example\n")
{'client': {'computer_title': 'fred', 'account_name': 'example'}}
>>>

So, try instead:

#cloud-config
landscape:
  client:
    computer_title: fred
    account_name: example

Also, let us know if documentation is off anywhere that shows this example.

Thanks!

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

This is where I found the incorrect info, I believe this same file is in the cloud-init source package:

https://github.com/number5/cloud-init/blob/master/doc/examples/cloud-config-landscape.txt

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Confirmed it is also wrong in the cloud-init source package (as an example)

[David Britton (dpb)]

OK, Thanks --

I'll look into getting this fixed.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Matt,
  Thanks for the bug.

David,
  Thanks for the fix.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/2427