ceph-deploy fails on ubuntu 15.10 and 15.04

[Breno Leitão]

When I try to add Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 nodes using ceph-deploy, it fails because it thinks that both distro still use upstart, and tries to execute initctl which does exist any more. This is an example of the failure:

[u1504][WARNIN] ********************************************************************************
[u1504][WARNIN] provided hostname must match remote hostname
[u1504][WARNIN] provided hostname: u1504
[u1504][WARNIN] remote hostname: 1504
[u1504][WARNIN] monitors may not reach quorum and create-keys will not complete
[u1504][WARNIN] ********************************************************************************
[u1504][DEBUG ] deploying mon to u1504
[u1504][DEBUG ] get remote short hostname
[u1504][DEBUG ] remote hostname: 1504
[u1504][DEBUG ] write cluster configuration to /etc/ceph/{cluster}.conf
[u1504][DEBUG ] create the mon path if it does not exist
[u1504][DEBUG ] checking for done path: /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-1504/done
[u1504][DEBUG ] create a done file to avoid re-doing the mon deployment
[u1504][DEBUG ] create the init path if it does not exist
[u1504][DEBUG ] locating the `service` executable...
[u1504][INFO ] Running command: sudo initctl emit ceph-mon cluster=ceph id=1504
[u1504][ERROR ] Traceback (most recent call last):
[u1504][ERROR ] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceph_deploy/lib/vendor/remoto/process.py", line 94, in run
[u1504][ERROR ] reporting(conn, result, timeout)
[u1504][ERROR ] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceph_deploy/lib/vendor/remoto/log.py", line 13, in reporting
[u1504][ERROR ] received = result.receive(timeout)
[u1504][ERROR ] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceph_deploy/lib/vendor/remoto/lib/vendor/execnet/gateway_base.py", line 704, in receive
[u1504][ERROR ] raise self._getremoteerror() or EOFError()
[u1504][ERROR ] RemoteError: Traceback (most recent call last):
[u1504][ERROR ] File "<string>", line 1036, in executetask
[u1504][ERROR ] File "<remote exec>", line 12, in _remote_run
[u1504][ERROR ] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
[u1504][ERROR ] errread, errwrite)
[u1504][ERROR ] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
[u1504][ERROR ] raise child_exception
[u1504][ERROR ] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[u1504][ERROR ]
[u1504][ERROR ]
[ceph_deploy.mon][ERROR ] Failed to execute command: initctl emit ceph-mon cluster=ceph id=1504
[ceph_deploy][ERROR ] GenericError: Failed to create 1 monitors

If the node is Debian, everything runs fine. I am using ceph-deploy version 1.5.20-0ubuntu1 and ceph version 0.94.5-0ubuntu1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dr. Jens Harbott (j-harbott)]

IMHO this is a bug for ceph-deploy, which is a separate project from ceph itself. It should be solved with a new upstream version, probably 1.5.29, see also bug #1550853.