Hi Federico:
Looks like you don't have permission (with the AWS info in your config) to create EC2 Key Pairs at Amazon. Are you using an IAM User account? Go to AWS, log in to the Management Console, go to EC2 > Key Pairs, try to create one there. If that works, there's something funky with your starcluster config file. If it doesn't work, and you're using an IAM User account, you'll need to get permission from the master account holder.
Hope that helps!
Cheers, Hugh
From: starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu [mailto:starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu] On Behalf Of federico vaggi
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:12 AM
To: starcluster_at_mit.edu
Subject: [StarCluster] Error creating SSH key
Hello!
Thank you for all the work you put in to creating StarCluster. I am rather new to EC computing, so I was trying to follow the quickstart guide religiously, and ran into a snag when I was creating the keypair.
I used:
starcluster createkey mykey -o ~/.ssh/mykey.rsa
and got this error at first:
fedev_at_UbuntuHome:~$ starcluster createkey mykey -o ~/.ssh/mykey.rsa
StarCluster - (
http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.93.3)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster_at_mit.edu<mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu>
!!! ERROR - output directory does not exist
I manually created the .ssh directory, and reran the command:
fedev_at_UbuntuHome:~$ starcluster createkey amazonkey
StarCluster - (
http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.93.3)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster_at_mit.edu<mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu>
!!! ERROR - UnauthorizedOperation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.
Next, I tried Issuing the same command with sudo, but it didn't help at all and I got the same error.
Any clue what might be causing it? Google searches are not particularly helpful (or, I cannot figure out how they are related to my current problem).
Thank you very much!
Federico
PS
I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Received on Thu Feb 28 2013 - 10:53:51 EST