Comment 8 for bug 982787

To provide consistency with other Openstack components, the Ubuntu packages now require a manual run of database migrations to initialize schema on a new database, or when upgrading. This is handled by packaging if configured to use sqlite (default) but is required when reconfigured to use an external db or non-default sqlite database. As mentioned already, a new database:

glance-manage version_control 0
glance-manage db_sync

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