Clicking on links within Dashboard sends me back to log in screen

[Kevin Jackson]

After putting a workaround in place for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959262 by a non-recommended chown of /var/www to be owned by www-data (process owner of Apache) I can then log into Dashboard. But on clicking through links I always get presented with the log in screen saying "access denied for /nova/". I simply put in my details again, to which Keystone agrees with and then I can then see that resource. Clicking on another link I then get sent back to the log in screen. Wash, rinse, repeat...

I had this issue last week on an earlier release.

I'm using Firefox 11.0 and the access log is in this paste: http://paste.openstack.org/show/11325/

openstack-dashboard 2012.1~rc1~20120315.1545-0ubuntu1

(I appreciate that the bug 959262 could, in some way, be related to this given that I put in a workaround)

[Kevin Jackson (kevin-linuxservices)]

Not sure what to do with this "bug" as I raised this specifically with the Ubuntu package...

1) install memcached to match the config
2) change the config to not use memcached

1) installing memcached solved this problem. So this could be included in dependencies for this package (as the configs, as supplied by Ubuntu assume memcached)
2) changing the config to below also worked.

Either way, doing an install of a package from Ubuntu should set appropriate default values in the configs.

# We recommend you use memcached for development; otherwise after every reload
# of the django development server, you will have to login again. To use
# memcached set CACHE_BACKED to something like 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/'
# CACHE_BACKEND = 'locmem://'
CACHE_BACKEND = 'dummy://'
SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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