Re: !!! ERROR - placement group does not exist (Butson, Christopher)

From: Steve Jaffe <no email>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:17:26 -0600

It doesn't look like that was the problem; I would have expected messages about not being able to start the instance.
(And it's not possible to tell in advance whether the number and type of instances requested are available)
Steve

Check the debug log (~/.starcluster/logs/debug.log).
I suspect the requested machine never started -- cc2.8xlarge are in short supply.

This is the text from the debug log around that time. It hadn't occurred to me that this instance might not be available. Is there another way I can check availability before launching starcluster? Thanks.

2013-02-28 19:15:08,934 PID: 17806 config.py:551 - DEBUG - Loading config
2013-02-28 19:15:08,935 PID: 17806 config.py:118 - DEBUG - Loading file: /Users/local/.starcluster/config
2013-02-28 19:15:08,937 PID: 17806 awsutils.py:54 - DEBUG - creating self._conn w/ connection_authenticator kwargs = {'proxy_user': None, 'proxy_pass': None, 'proxy_port': None, 'proxy': None, 'is_secure': True, 'path': '/', 'region': None, 'port': None}
2013-02-28 19:15:09,747 PID: 17806 start.py:176 - INFO - Using default cluster template: smallcluster
2013-02-28 19:15:09,747 PID: 17806 cluster.py:1539 - INFO - Validating cluster template settings...
2013-02-28 19:15:14,924 PID: 17806 cluster.py:1555 - INFO - Cluster template settings are valid
2013-02-28 19:15:14,924 PID: 17806 cluster.py:1427 - INFO - Starting cluster...
2013-02-28 19:15:14,924 PID: 17806 cluster.py:952 - INFO - Launching a 1-node cluster...
2013-02-28 19:15:14,924 PID: 17806 cluster.py:979 - DEBUG - Launching master (ami: ami-4583572c, type: cc2.8xlarge)
2013-02-28 19:15:15,041 PID: 17806 awsutils.py:165 - INFO - Creating security group _at_sc-butson_cluster...
2013-02-28 19:15:17,257 PID: 17806 awsutils.py:275 - INFO - Creating placement group _at_sc-butson_cluster...
2013-02-28 19:15:18,631 PID: 17806 cli.py:279 - ERROR - placement group _at_sc-butson_cluster does not exist
Received on Fri Mar 01 2013 - 13:17:23 EST