DevStack installation on RHEL (not CentOS Stream) fails

[Rajath]

EDIT: see comment #2 for the real issue

Trying to install latest devstack on RHEL 8.3 but the installation fails with the error "ebtables v1.8.4 (nf_tables): table `broute' is incompatible, use 'nft' tool." The failure is consistent and is happening with every try.

+lib/rpc_backend:install_rpc_backend:1 exit_trap
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:503 local r=1
++./stack.sh:exit_trap:504 jobs -p
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:504 jobs=
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:507 [[ -n '' ]]
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:513 '[' -f '' ']'
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:518 kill_spinner
+./stack.sh:kill_spinner:413 '[' '!' -z '' ']'
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:520 [[ 1 -ne 0 ]]
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:521 echo 'Error on exit'
Error on exit
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:523 type -p generate-subunit
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:526 [[ -z /opt/stack/logs ]]
+./stack.sh:exit_trap:529 /bin/python3.6 /opt/stack/devstack/tools/worlddump.py -d /opt/stack/logs
World dumping... see /opt/stack/logs/worlddump-2021-05-31-142143.txt for details
ebtables v1.8.4 (nf_tables): table `broute' is incompatible, use 'nft' tool.

+./stack.sh:exit_trap:538 exit 1

[Radosław Piliszek (yoctozepto)]

This is only a warning, the error must be elsewhere. Include full logs.

[Rajath (rpatavardhan)]

Turns out there was an error with the installation of rabbitmq-server. Tried installing it manually and the devstack installation moved forward for a bit.

However the installation fails with the below error now:
Requirement already satisfied: fasteners===0.14.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from -c /opt/stack/requirements/upper-constraints.txt (line 163)) (0.14.1)
Requirement already satisfied: monotonic===1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from -c /opt/stack/requirements/upper-constraints.txt (line 244)) (1.5)
Building wheels for collected packages: yappi
  Building wheel for yappi (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-r7tylfjd/yappi/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-r7tylfjd/yappi/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-6baucbrd
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-r7tylfjd/yappi/
  Complete output (14 lines):
  unable to execute 'cc': No such file or directory
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6
  copying yappi/yappi.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6
  running build_ext
  building '_yappi' extension
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/yappi
  gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c yappi/_yappi.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/yappi/_yappi.o
  unable to execute 'gcc': No such file or directory
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for yappi
  Running setup.py clean for yappi
Failed to build yappi
Installing collected packages: yappi, oslo.service, oslo.messaging, testscenarios, testresources, Mako, python-editor, alembic, oslo.db, oslo.policy, oslo.upgradecheck, oauthlib, defusedxml, pyOpenSSL, elementpath, xmlschema, pysaml2, PyJWT, pyrsistent, jsonschema, osprofiler, keystone
    Running setup.py install for yappi ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c 'import sys, setupt...

[Radosław Piliszek (yoctozepto)]

As a quick workaround, I suggest you install gcc and retry.
As a larger workaround, I suggest you use CentOS Stream 8 or even Ubuntu (as it's most tested) if you don't require using RHEL.
At the moment, we support CentOS Stream 8 which is not 1:1 with RHEL.

[Dr. Jens Harbott (j-harbott)]

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