Hi Chris, 
That fixed my problem.  swift-proxy is now able to start with ceilometer in the pipeline.  The No Handlers message was there previously and is unrelated:

root@labproxy01:~# swift-init proxy start
Starting proxy-server...(/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/swift-proxy-server", line 23, in <module>
    sys.exit(run_wsgi(conf_file, 'proxy-server', **options))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 445, in run_wsgi
    loadapp(conf_path, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 354, in loadapp
    ctx = loadcontext(loadwsgi.APP, conf_file, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 338, in loadcontext
    global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 296, in loadcontext
    global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 320, in _loadconfig
    return loader.get_context(object_type, name, global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 61, in get_context
    object_type, name=name, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 450, in get_context
    global_additions=global_additions)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 562, in _pipeline_app_context
    for name in pipeline[:-1]]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 61, in get_context
    object_type, name=name, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 454, in get_context
    section)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 476, in _context_from_use
    object_type, name=use, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 61, in get_context
    object_type, name=name, global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 406, in get_context
    global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 296, in loadcontext
    global_conf=global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 328, in _loadegg
    return loader.get_context(object_type, name, global_conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 620, in get_context
    object_type, name=name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 640, in find_egg_entry_point
    pkg_resources.require(self.spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 725, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 632, in resolve
    raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (python-neutronclient 2.3.11 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('python-neutronclient>=2.4.0,<2.5.0'))

root@labproxy01:~# dpkg -i /tmp/python-ceilometer_2015.1.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb 
(Reading database ... 100006 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python-ceilometer_2015.1.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python-ceilometer (2015.1.2-0ubuntu1.1) over (2015.1.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0) ...
Setting up python-ceilometer (2015.1.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
root@labproxy01:~# swift-init proxy start
Starting proxy-server...(/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf)
No handlers could be found for logger "ceilometer.openstack.common.versionutils"

root@labproxy01:~# swift-init proxy status
proxy-server running (8136 - /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf)
root@labproxy01:~#