error: cannot log in to admin database: auth fails

[Sidnei da Silva]

Steps to reproduce:

Bootstrap environment
Run juju status

-> Returns immediately

Change admin-secret
Run juju status

-> Nothing for ~1min and then: error: cannot log in to admin database: auth fails

Running with -v, there's exactly 60s of retries with:

2013/05/09 16:22:16 INFO state: opening state; mongo addresses: ["10.55.63.165:37017"]; entity ""
2013/05/09 16:22:16 INFO state: connection established

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

See bug #1178312 for my comment about a general "fails slowly/waits forever" on things that won't actually work.

Did juju status at least report a failure after 1 minute, or is it just that you interrupted it?

Part of the issue is that the code is written to expect the service to take a while to start up, so it retries continually. But certainly it should detect a difference between:
1) Could not login because there isn't a remote service (try again later)
and
2) Could not login because the credentials are incorrect (immediately fatal because we don't expect them to work if we retry)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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