[2.0] bootstrapping with a controller name containing a : character fails with no error message

[Larry Michel]

I tried to bootstrap with a controller name that had : and the bootstrap failed with no error message. It just destroyed the controller after bootstrap was completed. It's obviously a user error to attempt this name, but I think it should be handled with a descriptive error.

This is easily recreatable.

ii juju 2.0-beta15-0ubuntu1~14.04.1~juju1 all next generation service orchestration system
ii juju-2.0 2.0-beta15-0ubuntu1~14.04.1~juju1 amd64 Juju is devops distilled - client

juju bootstrap controller:vmware larry --config default-series=trusty --to varaha.oil
Creating Juju controller "controller:vmware" on larry
Bootstrapping model "controller"
Starting new instance for initial controller
Launching instance
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Installing Juju agent on bootstrap instance
Preparing for Juju GUI 2.1.8 release installation
Waiting for address
Attempting to connect to 10.245.0.173:22
Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.173' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Logging to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log on remote host
Running apt-get update
Running apt-get upgrade
Installing package: curl
Installing package: cpu-checker
Installing package: bridge-utils
Installing package: cloud-utils
Installing package: tmux
Fetching tools: curl -sSfw 'tools from %{url_effective} downloaded: HTTP %{http_code}; time %{time_total}s; size %{size_download} bytes; speed %{speed_download} bytes/s ' --retry 10 -o $bin/tools.tar.gz <[https://streams.canonical.com/juju/tools/agent/2.0-beta15/juju-2.0-beta15-trusty-amd64.tgz]>
Bootstrapping Juju machine agent
Starting Juju machine agent (jujud-machine-0)
Bootstrap agent installed
ERROR controller controller not found

Even with --debug there was no error message.

/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:42:37 DEBUG juju.provider.common bootstrap.go:330 connection attempt for 10.245.0.242 failed: Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:42:42 DEBUG juju.provider.common bootstrap.go:330 connection attempt for 10.245.0.242 failed: Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:42:47 DEBUG juju.provider.common bootstrap.go:330 connection attempt for 10.245.0.242 failed: Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:42:52 DEBUG juju.provider.common bootstrap.go:330 connection attempt for 10.245.0.242 failed: Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:42:58 DEBUG juju.provider.common bootstrap.go:330 connection attempt for 10.245.0.242 failed: Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
/var/lib/juju/nonce.txt does not exist
2016-08-23 17:43:03 DEBUG juju.utils.ssh ssh.go:292 using OpenSSH ssh client
Warning: Permanently added '10.245.0.242' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Logging to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log on remote host
Running apt-get update
Running apt-get upgrade
Installing package: curl
Installing package: cpu-checker
Installing package: bridge-utils
Installing package: cloud-utils
Installing package: tmux
Fetching tools: curl -sSfw 'tools from %{url_effective} downloaded: HTTP %{http_code}; time %{time_total}s; size %{size_download} bytes; speed %{speed_download} bytes/s ' --retry 10 -o $bin/tools.tar.gz <[https://streams.canonical.com/juju/tools/agent/2.0-beta15/juju-2.0-beta15-trusty-amd64.tgz]>
Bootstrapping Juju machine agent
Starting Juju machine agent (jujud-machine-0)
2016-08-23 17:44:29 INFO cmd cmd.go:129 Bootstrap agent installed
2016-08-23 17:44:29 INFO juju.cmd.juju.commands bootstrap.go:600 bootstrap failed but --keep-broken was specified so model is not being destroyed.
When you are finished diagnosing the problem, remember to run juju destroy-model --force
to clean up the model.
2016-08-23 17:44:29 ERROR cmd supercommand.go:458 controller mycontroller not found
2016-08-23 17:44:29 DEBUG cmd supercommand.go:459 (error details: [{github.com/juju/juju/cmd/juju/commands/bootstrap.go:713: } {github.com/juju/juju/cmd/modelcmd/modelcommand.go:144: } {github.com/juju/juju/jujuclient/file.go:108: controller mycontroller not found}])

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