maniacs-setup fails with "503" error

[Rod Smith]

The maniacs-setup script fails sporadically with:

***************************************************************************
* A MAAS administrative account with a name of bladernr is being
* created.
*
* Please enter a password for this account:
* Please re-enter the password for verification:
* Setting up the bladernr MAAS account using the supplied password
The MAAS server gave an unexpected response: 503

Mark Wenning, Jeff Lane, Mike Rushton and I have all run into it. I SUSPECT that the cause is that the script temporarily shuts down Apache, and if it's not fully up again by the time the script needs it, the 503 error results.

[Mark W Wenning (mwenning)]

I've seen this on 2 systems, both behind a proxy firewall (Dell Linuxlab). After "tuning" the proxy settings a bit, it instead crashed with the following:
...
* Please enter a password for this account:
* Please re-enter the password for verification:
* Setting up the ubuntu MAAS account using the supplied password
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maascli/__main__.py", line 20, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maascli/__init__.py", line 46, in main
    options.execute(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maascli/cli.py", line 78, in __call__
    options.url, credentials, options.insecure)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maascli/auth.py", line 78, in check_valid_apikey
    insecure=insecure)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maascli/api.py", line 67, in http_request
    return http.request(url, method, body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1569, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1316, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1251, in _conn_request
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 900, in connect
    self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port) + sa[2:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/socks.py", line 424, in connect
    self.__negotiatehttp(destpair[0], destpair[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/socks.py", line 390, in __negotiatehttp
    raise HTTPError((statuscode, statusline[2]))
httplib2.socks.HTTPError: (502, 'cannotconnect')
ubuntu@maas:~$
...

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

This version of Ubuntu and MAAS is no longer supported by maas-cert-server. If this is still an issue with the current versions, please file a new bug.