juju-quickstart cannot bootstrap local environemnt

[Thomi Richards]

I'm trying to use juju-quickstart to bootstrap a local environemnt.

I'm running this as a normal user. Example output:

---
$ juju-quickstart

changes to the environments file have been saved
juju quickstart v1.0.0
adding the ppa:juju/stable PPA repository
sudo privileges are required for PPA installation
[sudo] password for thomi:
installing the following packages: juju-core, lxc, mongodb-server (this can take a while)
sudo privileges will be used for package installation
ssh-agent has been started.

To interact with Juju or quickstart again after quickstart finishes, please
run the following in a terminal to start ssh-agent:

  eval `ssh-agent`

bootstrapping the local environment (type: local)
sudo privileges required to bootstrap the environment
juju-quickstart: error: ERROR failure setting config: bootstrapping a local environment must not be done as root
ERROR bootstrapping a local environment must not be done as root

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

This is a known issue as we're between sudo lxc and sudoless lxc in 1.17 and trusty. There is code to check if the version of juju is < 1.18 and if so it shows that error message. Once 1.18 lands it'll work as expected.

Marking invalid, but only because it's a known pain point while we're working through trusty and the dev versions of things right now.