Cannot Follow and Verify Placement Install for Ubuntu on Zed

[Larry Simon]

Simplying following the instructions in the Zed Version of Placement for Ubuntu on Ubuntu 22.04 and proceeding to the "Verify" instructions running placement-status upgrade check returns an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/placement-status", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/placement/cmd/status.py", line 136, in main
    config(args=sys.argv[1:], project='placement')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_config/cfg.py", line 2163, in __call__
    self._check_required_opts()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_config/cfg.py", line 2906, in _check_required_opts
    raise RequiredOptError(opt.name, group)
oslo_config.cfg.RequiredOptError: value required for option connection in group [placement_database]

It seems that there are some missing instructions for a required option somewhere in the install guide.

[Larry Simon (lvsimon)]

It would seem the missing instructions are to add the "user" to the "placement" group, as described in this article: Recommend the installation guide be updated or other remedies employed as appropriate.

https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2008969

[Lyle Cameron (stacker-lyle)]

I've had this problem as well and have tried the fix as per https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2008969, which did not work for me. I can complete the verify step using the root account, but not my user account. I've added my user to the placement group in /etc/group. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and installing Openstack 2023.1 (Bobcat).