Can't deploy service in a freshly-bootstrapped LXC environment

[David Owen]

On a freshly-bootstrapped LXC environment, trying to deploy a new service will allocate an instance which stays in the "pending" state indefinitely.

1. I'm using juju 0.6.0.1 for Ubuntu 12.04.
2. Make sure that a) the directory containing the local environment and b) /var/lib/lxc are both completely empty.
3. Reboot.
4. "juju boostrap"
5. "juju status" will display the new environment
6. "juju deploy <charm>"
7. "juju status" will show output similar to status.txt, attached.

I'm not sure where to look for potential problems, but I also found some interesting content in the unit's container.log (attached). output.log is linked to a file containing only "/usr/bin/python: No module named juju.agents" several times. unit.log is a link to a non-existent file.

[David Owen (dsowen)]

I just found some failure messages in /var/log/cloud-init{,-output}.log inside the LXC container. I don't know if anything here is pertinent.

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

David, I found my first attempts at juju deployment failed with the same error message you have; thanks for giving the /var/log/cloud-init-output.log name within the container, that was sufficient for me to determine that my apt-cacher-ng was not yet configured to listen on the rfc1918 IP address that LXC or Juju configured for me.

Your log file shows similar failures to retrieve packages; it looks to me like your local package mirror is broken or out of date or similarly busted.

Hope this helps.

[David Owen (dsowen)]

I don't think there's a problem with the address that apt-cacher-ng is listening on. After purging apt-cacher-ng and reinstalling, I see that the LXC container is able to fetch index files through the cache, but then there are size mismatches on basically every deb file.

[David Owen (dsowen)]

Besides what may or may not be wrong with apt-cacher-ng, juju should not lose track of an instance in this way; it should detect that the instance has failed in someway and report that to the user.

[David Owen (dsowen)]

Tried clearing the cache *and* disabling ufw, as described in http://askubuntu.com/questions/134977/juju-stuck-in-pending-state-when-using-lxc . No luck.