This package needs some serious testing, from what I see dbconfig-common is broken. Not only is dbconfig-common configuration skipped on initial installation, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't even work. --- $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keystone keystone stop/waiting dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/keystone.conf Replacing config file /etc/dbconfig-common/keystone.conf with new version creating database keystone.db: success. verifying database keystone.db exists: success. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/keystone-manage", line 28, in cli.main(argv=sys.argv, config_files=config_files) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/cli.py", line 148, in main return run(cmd, (args[:1] + args[2:])) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/cli.py", line 134, in run return CMDS[cmd](argv=args).run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/cli.py", line 36, in run return self.main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/cli.py", line 57, in main driver.db_sync() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/identity/backends/sql.py", line 135, in db_sync migration.db_sync() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/common/sql/migration.py", line 50, in db_sync current_version = db_version() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/common/sql/migration.py", line 66, in db_version return db_version_control(0) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystone/common/sql/migration.py", line 72, in db_version_control CONF.sql.connection, repo_path, version) File "", line 2, in version_control File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/migrate/versioning/util/__init__.py", line 159, in with_engine return f(*a, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/migrate/versioning/api.py", line 250, in version_control ControlledSchema.create(engine, repository, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/migrate/versioning/schema.py", line 139, in create table = cls._create_table_version(engine, repository, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/migrate/versioning/schema.py", line 180, in _create_table_version if not table.exists(): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 549, in exists self.name, schema=self.schema) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2274, in run_callable conn = self.contextual_connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2340, in contextual_connect self.pool.connect(), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 210, in connect return _ConnectionFairy(self).checkout() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 371, in __init__ rec = self._connection_record = pool._do_get() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 758, in _do_get return self._create_connection() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 174, in _create_connection return _ConnectionRecord(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 256, in __init__ self.connection = self.__connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 316, in __connect connection = self.__pool._creator() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py", line 80, in connect return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 280, in connect return self.dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams) sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (OperationalError) unable to open database file None None