mcollective fail

[Israel Calvete]

I try to config my ec2 instances using cloud-init, puppet and mcollective.

My ami is ami-c1aaabb5 (ubuntu precise pangolin)

My cloud-init script is:

#cloud-config
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
package_reboot_if_required: true
apt_pipelining: False
apt_preserve_sources_list: true
packages:
        - puppet
        - mcollective
        - mcollective-plugins-puppetd
locale: es_ES.UTF-8
locale_configfile: /etc/default/locale
timezone: Europe/Madrid
hostname: puppetagent2-test
fqdn: puppetagent2-test.xxxxxxx.xxxx
manage_etc_hosts: true
output:
        init: "> /var/log/my-cloud-init.log"
        config: [ ">> /tmp/my-cloud-config.out", "> /tmp/my-cloud-config.err" ]
        final:
                output: "| tee /tmp/my-cloud-config.stdout | tee /tmp/my-cloud-config.stdout"
                error: "&1"
puppet:
        conf:
                main:
                        pluginsync: true
                        server: "puppet-test.xxxxxxx.xxxx"
                master:
                        certname: "puppet-test.xxxxxxx.xxxx"
mcollective:
        conf:
                plugin.stomp.host: "puppet-test.xxxxxxx.xxxx"
                plugin.stomp.port: "61613"
                plugin.stomp.user: "guest"
                plugin.stomp.password: "guest"

Puppet config works fine but mcollectice don't

In the error log of cloud-init i can see:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_mcollective.py", line 79, in handle
    for o, v in cfg.iteritems():
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'iteritems'

After see the code, I think that cfg always will be an str.

It seem like if be a bug but i don't know.

i try to trick it with:

mcollective:
        conf:
                plugin.stomp:
                        plugin.stomp.host: "puppet-test..xxxxxxx.xxxx"
                        plugin.stomp.port: "61613"
                        plugin.stomp.user: "guest"
                        plugin.stomp.password: "guest"

but...

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 396, in set
    raise NoSectionError(section)
NoSectionError: No section: 'plugin.stomp'

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Can you please verify if this is still a problem against either trunk or quantal or raring?
I suspect it is fixed in all of those.

It should only currently be a problem in 12.04

[Israel Calvete (icalvete)]

Verified. In Quantal works fine!!!!

[Israel Calvete (icalvete)]

Easy workarround in precise pangolin.

runcmd:
        - [ntpdate, pool.ntp.or]
        - [sed, -i, /etc/mcollective/server.cfg, -e, 's/plugin.stomp.host= .*/plugin.stomp.host= xxxxxxxxxxx/']
        - [sed, -i, /etc/mcollective/server.cfg, -e, 's/plugin.stomp.password= .*/plugin.stomp.password= xxxxxxxx/']

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/2351