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Re: Saving a custom AMI

From: Chris Diehl <no email>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:27:12 -0700

Hi Justin,

No worries! I appreciate your reply.

I have not tried it with underscores. I read somewhere that using dashes
instead of underscores was the way to go. That worked for me so I didn't
experiment further...

Chris

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Justin Riley <justin.t.riley_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I apologize for the delay. You're right that capital letters are an issue.
> StarCluster attempts to validate the bucket name based on the rules defined
> here:
>
>
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?BucketRestrictions.html
>
>
> <http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?BucketRestrictions.html>This
> states that bucket names should consist of only "lowercase letters,
> numbers, periods (.), underscores (_), and dashes (-)". That being said
> Amazon also recommends for DNS purposes that the name does not contain
> underscores. However, looking at the code I believe StarCluster will still
> allow you to create buckets with underscores in the name assuming it's not
> the first character. Have you tried using the underscores with only
> lower-case letters?
>
> ~Justin
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Chris Diehl wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> So I discovered the problem. It turns out S3 folder names that have capital
> letters or underscores will cause this problem. Using a folder name with all
> lowercase letters and dashes worked just fine.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Diehl <diehl_at_alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been trying to save a custom AMI this morning with StarCluster and I
>> keep getting the following error.
>>
>> $ starcluster createimage i-8a84f2e5 custom_starcluster_image
>> AMI_Instances
>> StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster)
>> Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
>> Please submit bug reports to starcluster_at_mit.edu
>>
>> cli.py:1079 - ERROR - bucket name AMI_Instances is not valid
>>
>> I created an AMI_Instances bucket on S3 and *thought* I had configured
>> permissions properly. But with everything I've tried, I come up with the
>> same result.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what I should check would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
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Received on Tue Apr 19 2011 - 00:27:33 EDT
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