ceilometer api starts fails due to TypeError

[asif]

Unable to start ceilemeter-api service, I am getting hit with this CRITICAL error as shown in following log.

OS:Ubuntu 14.04LTS
OpenStack-IceHouse

2014-10-21 19:47:16.301 16839 INFO keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Starting keystone auth_token middleware
2014-10-21 19:47:16.307 16839 WARNING keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] This middleware module is deprecated as of v0.10.0 in favor of keystonemiddleware.auth_token - please update your WSGI pipeline to reference the new middleware package.
2014-10-21 19:47:16.308 16839 WARNING keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Configuring admin URI using auth fragments. This is deprecated, use 'identity_uri' instead.
2014-10-21 19:47:16.319 16839 INFO keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Using /tmp/keystone-signing-WinoCJ as cache directory for signing certificate
2014-10-21 19:47:16.325 16839 CRITICAL ceilometer [-] TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta seconds component: str

2014-10-21 19:48:10.268 16989 INFO keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Starting keystone auth_token middleware
2014-10-21 19:48:10.300 16989 WARNING keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] This middleware module is deprecated as of v0.10.0 in favor of keystonemiddleware.auth_token - please update your WSGI pipeline to reference the new middleware package.
2014-10-21 19:48:10.302 16989 WARNING keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Configuring admin URI using auth fragments. This is deprecated, use 'identity_uri' instead.
2014-10-21 19:48:10.304 16989 INFO keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token [-] Using /tmp/keystone-signing-7H2qoj as cache directory for signing certificate
2014-10-21 19:48:10.333 16989 CRITICAL ceilometer [-] TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta seconds component: str

[WillB (ubuntu-onz)]

The problem is the revocation_cache_time setting needs to be set or else it treats it as a string. Simply uncomment the setting in the /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf file and restart the service.

[gordon chung (chungg)]

seems to be addressed by comment. please reopen if otherwise.