Local bootstrap failure gives unhelpful message

[Brad Crittenden]

Running 'juju bootstrap' with a local provider while another process is doing package management results in an unhelpful error message:

% juju --version
1.20.13-utopic-amd64

% juju bootstrap
uploading tools for series [precise trusty utopic]
Logging to /home/bac/.juju/local/cloud-init-output.log on remote host
Bootstrapping Juju machine agent
541983e88a35bdcff3d10ff759a10d8bfc9cd9b67aad1f15c1e725042e1d52b2 /home/bac/.juju/local/tools/1.20.13.1-utopic-amd64/tools.tar.gz
2014-12-11 15:05:18 INFO juju.cmd supercommand.go:37 running jujud [1.20.13.1-utopic-amd64 gc]
2014-12-11 15:05:18 DEBUG juju.agent agent.go:377 read agent config, format "1.18"
2014-12-11 15:05:18 INFO juju.provider.local environprovider.go:42 opening environment "local"
2014-12-11 15:05:18 DEBUG juju.cmd.jujud bootstrap.go:210 starting mongo
2014-12-11 15:05:18 DEBUG juju.cmd.jujud bootstrap.go:235 calling ensureMongoServer
2014-12-11 15:05:18 INFO juju.mongo mongo.go:171 Ensuring mongo server is running; data directory /home/bac/.juju/local; port 37017
2014-12-11 15:05:18 INFO juju.mongo mongo.go:326 installing juju-mongodb
2014-12-11 15:05:18 INFO juju.utils.apt apt.go:132 Running: [apt-get --option=Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold --option=Dpkg::options::=--force-unsafe-io --assume-yes --quiet install juju-mongodb]
2014-12-11 15:05:28 ERROR juju.utils.apt apt.go:166 apt-get command failed: unexpected error type *errors.errorString
args: []string{"apt-get", "--option=Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold", "--option=Dpkg::options::=--force-unsafe-io", "--assume-yes", "--quiet", "install", "juju-mongodb"}

2014-12-11 15:05:28 ERROR juju.cmd supercommand.go:323 cannot install mongod: apt-get failed: unexpected error type *errors.errorString
Bootstrap failed, destroying environment
ERROR exit status 1

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This bug overlaps with a few other apt bugs. I am setting this to medium because I believe the other apt/race bugs show the issue is worse than this bug reports. In general, Juju need to wait to get access to apt.

[dann frazier (dannf)]

Yep, I hit this when I happened to be apt-get installing something in a different terminal at the same time. For me it would suffice just to get a clear error about the problem, so I know I can try again later when apt-get is done.