Re: StarCluster Digest, Vol 71, Issue 8

From: Boris Fain <no email>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 21:12:49 -0700

Hi all -

All problems solved. An amazing thank you for the creator of ami-bdeecb8d
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RBupgpi_ec

If anyone needs ubuntu 14 (and everyone does) look for ami-bdeecb8d in
Oregon region it works like a charm.

b.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:32 PM, <starcluster-request_at_mit.edu> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:20:09 -0700
> From: Boris Fain <boris_at_freecurve.com>
> Subject: Re: [StarCluster] StarCluster Digest, Vol 59, Issue 6
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> Has this been fixed? I'm using the 12.04 ami's and having a lot of problems
> with packages.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:25 AM, <starcluster-request_at_mit.edu> wrote:
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> > 1. Re: apt-get 403 error (Cedar McKay)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:29:14 -0700
> > From: Cedar McKay <cmckay_at_uw.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [StarCluster] apt-get 403 error
> > To: David Mrva <davidm_at_cantabresearch.com>
> > Cc: starcluster_at_mit.edu
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> > This problem just went from bad to worse. Now it appears that even
> > changing the sources.list file doesn't work. My guess is that ubuntu has
> > withdrawn the 13.04 repos from their servers. That means that there is
> now
> > no way to install packages using apt-get that I'm aware of. This is a big
> > problem for my work.
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice for workarounds?
> >
> > I respectfully request that the starcluster folks create some 14.04 based
> > AMIs, and retire the 13.04 based AMIs. I took a crack at it upgrading to
> > 14.04, but failed, it was a bit over my head.
> >
> >
> > best,
> > Cedar
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:58 AM, David Mrva <davidm_at_cantabresearch.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The EC2 Ubuntu repository mirrors are down and according to
> > communication from Canonical, they will not come up. This is because
> 13.04
> > is on a short support cycle, see
> > >
> >
> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/changes-in-ubuntu-releases-decided-by-the-ubuntu-technical-board/
> > > and it has reached end of life in January 2014:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases.
> > >
> > > This is very inconvenient. When I start a new spot instance with the
> > loadbalancer, the pkginstaller plugin needs to install packages and the
> > central (us.archive.ubuntu.com) repositories are not enabled by default.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to:
> > > a/ always enable archive.ubuntu.com repositories to be used if EC2
> > mirrors go down (or add an option to the pkginstall plugin to accept
> > repository URLs to add to sources.list),
> > > b/ add StarCluster AMIs with Ubuntu 14.10 LTS?
> > >
> > > Currently, out of the Ubuntu releases supported by StarCluster only
> > 12.04 has not reached end-of-life:
> > >
> > > >>> Listing all public StarCluster images...
> > >
> > > 32bit Images:
> > > -------------
> > > [0] ami-b2badb82 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86 (EBS)
> > > [1] ami-0a6afe3a us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86 (EBS)
> > > [2] ami-c2bd30f2 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-11.10-x86 (EBS)
> > >
> > > 64bit Images:
> > > --------------
> > > [0] ami-04bedf34 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64 (EBS)
> > > [1] ami-80bedfb0 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64-hvm
> > (HVM-EBS)
> > > [2] ami-486afe78 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64-hvm
> > (HVM-EBS)
> > > [3] ami-706afe40 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64 (EBS)
> > > [4] ami-c6bd30f6 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64 (EBS)
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 09/06/2014 22:25, Stephen How wrote:
> > >> All,
> > >>
> > >> For a temporary fix for the problem, I've edited my
> > /etc/apt/sources.list file, fixing the URLs (shortening the hostname to
> > archive.ubuntu.com).
> > >>
> > >> Then you can
> > >> >apt-get update
> > >> and
> > >> >apt-get install (your-package)
> > >>
> > >> That'll work until the main issue is fixed
> > (/etc/cloud/templates/sources.list.ubuntu.tmpl ?).
> > >>
> > >> Steve
> > >>
> > >> On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Stephen How <stephenhow_at_me.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I believe the URL changed to
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm reading the manual on how to change the apt-get source URL :)
> > >>>
> > >>> Will update soon ...
> > >>>
> > >>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Cedar McKay <cmckay_at_uw.edu> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Same problem here.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cedar
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Stephen How <stephenhow_at_me.com> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Hello,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Today I'm having trouble with apt-get install on the ami-56172513
> > image [us-west-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64 (EBS)].
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Usually, I apt-get install packages on this AMI without any
> > problems. Today it looks like something changed.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> apt-get update didn't help
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Failed to fetch
> >
> http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> > 403 Forbidden
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Is this an ubuntu.com http archive issue? Can I point to some
> > other package source?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>> Steve
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> root_at_master:~# apt-get install sqlite3
> > >>>>> Reading package lists... Done
> > >>>>> Building dependency tree
> > >>>>> Reading state information... Done
> > >>>>> Suggested packages:
> > >>>>> sqlite3-doc
> > >>>>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > >>>>> sqlite3
> > >>>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > >>>>> Need to get 29.2 kB of archives.
> > >>>>> After this operation, 187 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > >>>>> Err http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main
> > sqlite3 amd64 3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1
> > >>>>> 403 Forbidden
> > >>>>> Failed to fetch
> >
> http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> > 403 Forbidden
> > >>>>> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try
> > with --fix-missing?
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:32:20 -0700
> From: Boris Fain <boris_at_freecurve.com>
> Subject: [StarCluster] createusers
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> Hi -
>
> Thank you very much for a great package!
>
> I am having problems adding users to the cluster:
>
> boris_at_MacBook-Pro:~$ starcluster runplugin createusers md_cluster
> StarCluster - (http://star.mit.edu/cluster) (v. 0.95.6)
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> !!! ERROR - Plugin "createusers" not found in config
>
> and in the plugins directory in the config file I have:
>
> [plugin createusers]
> SETUP_CLASS = starcluster.plugins.users.CreateUsers
> # # NUM_USERS = 5
> usernames = boris, illarionov, kurnikov, leonidp, tatianap
> DOWNLOAD_KEYS = True
> download_keys_dir = /Users/boris/Work/strela/starcluster_ec2
>
> # # you can also comment out NUM_USERS and specify exact usernames, e.g.
>
> and, also, in the md_cluster definition:
>
> PLUGINS = sge, pkginstaller, createusers
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
> P.S. create volume does not find the default ami in us-west-2a but I just
> did this manually.
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b.

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