Re: determining what version of StarCluster was used to create a cluster

From: Greg Caporaso <no email>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:54:19 -0700

Thanks Justin - that checkout got it.

Greg

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Justin Riley <jtriley_at_mit.edu> wrote:
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> Hey Greg,
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> The latest code on github will store the cluster's metadata in the
> master node's tags and user data instead of the description field of
> the cluster's security group.
>
> Before this change the cluster's group description contained the
> version plus the cluster's base64-encoded metadata e.g.:
>
> 0.93.3-$base64_encoded_data
>
> If you see 0.9999 as the version this means you used a previous
> development version of StarCluster. In this case you'll need to
> roll-back to a previous commit (ie before the metadata change) in
> order to use StarCluster to manage the cluster:
>
> $ git checkout d7443c16573cc99aa6fd020e507f6e2757222371
>
> In this case I would recommend temporarily running the above (perhaps
> in a separate copy of the git repo) just to do whatever's necessary to
> shutdown the cluster. Once your old clusters have been terminated it
> you should be able to switch back to the latest git code.
>
> Sorry this is so cumbersome but sometimes when you live on the
> bleeding edge you bleed :D With that said I plan to provide more
> informative error messages before release to alleviate some of this
> pain...
>
> HTH,
>
> ~Justin
>
> On 10/23/2012 10:45 AM, Greg Caporaso wrote:
>> Hi, I'm running into an issue related to the one described here:
>>
>> https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/issues/151
>>
>> (I asked this question there as well, but then realized that this
>> was the more appropriate place to ask.)
>>
>> Is there a way to determine what version of StarCluster was used
>> to create a cluster?
>>
>> Greg _______________________________________________ StarCluster
>> mailing list StarCluster_at_mit.edu
>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster
>>
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