Hi Joaquin,

A quick word of praise - addressing the issue so quickly presents a really
good view of Datastax

cheers



On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Joaquin Casares <joaq...@datastax.com>wrote:

> Hello again John,
>
> The AMI has been patched and tested for both DSE and C* and works for the
> standard 3 node test. The new code has been pushed to the 2.4 branch so
> launching a new set of instances will give you an updated AMI.
>
> You should now have the newest version of OpsCenter installed, along with
> the new DataStax Agents (that replace the OpsCenter Agents). Also, I've
> patched the two bugs for the motd and for allowing the other nodes to join.
>
> The issue came from a new release of nodetool that contained some
> unexpected text that choked up the AMI code as it waited for nodes to come
> online.
>
> Let me know if you see any further issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joaquin Casares
> DataStax
> Software Engineer in Test
>
>
>
> <http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/training/virtual-training>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Joaquin Casares <joaq...@datastax.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey John,
>>
>> Thanks for letting us know. I'm also seeing that the motd gets stuck, but
>> if I ctrl-c during the message and try a `nodetool status` there doesn't
>> appear to be an issue.
>>
>> I'm currently investigating why it's getting stuck. Are you seeing
>> something similar?
>>
>> What happens if you try to run a `sudo service cassandra restart`? Could
>> you send me your /var/log/cassandra/system.log if this still fails?
>>
>> Also, I realize now that the package name for the newest version of
>> OpsCenter changed from opscenter-free to opscenter. I committed that change
>> to our dev AMI and am testing it now. Once this change is made you will no
>> longer have to install agents via OpsCenter since they should already be on
>> the system. That being said, you won't hit the current OpsCenter/DataStax
>> Agent version mismatch you've been hitting.
>>
>> Also, we currently only have one AMI. Each time an instance is launched
>> the newest version of the code is pulled down from
>> https://github.com/riptano/ComboAMI to ensure the code never gets stale
>> and can easily keep up with DSE/C* releases as well as AMI code fixes.
>>
>> I'll reply again as soon as I figure out and patch this motd issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joaquin Casares
>> DataStax
>> Software Engineer in Test
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/training/virtual-training>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:16 AM, John R. Frank <j...@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi C* experts,
>>>
>>> In the last 18hrs or so, I have been having trouble getting cassandra
>>> instances to launch using the datastax community AMI.  Has anyone else seen
>>> this?
>>>
>>> The instance comes up but then cassandra fails to run.  The most
>>> informative error message that I've seen so far is in the obscenter agent
>>> install log (below) --- see especially this line:
>>>
>>>         datastax-agent conflicts with opscenter-agent
>>>
>>> I have also attached the ami.log
>>>
>>> I run into these issues when launching with either the browser page:
>>> https://aws.amazon.com/amis/datastax-auto-clustering-ami-2-2
>>>
>>> Or command line, like this:
>>>
>>> ec2-run-instances ami-814ec2e8 -t m1.large --region us-east-1 --key
>>> buildbot -n $num_instances -d "--clustername Foo --totalnodes
>>> $num_instances  --version community  --opscenter yes"
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a newer AMI?
>>>
>>>
>>> Any advice?
>>> jrf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Some agent installations failed:
>>>
>>> - 10.6.133.241: Failure installing agent on 10.6.133.241.
>>> Error output:
>>> Unable to install the opscenter-agent package. Please check your apt-get
>>> configuration as well as the agent install log (/var/log/opscenter-agent/
>>> installer.log).
>>>
>>> Standard output:
>>> Removing old opscenter-agent files.
>>> opscenter-agent: unrecognized service
>>> Reading package lists...
>>> Building dependency tree...
>>> Reading state information...
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 171 not upgraded.
>>> Starting agent installation process for version 3.2.2
>>> Reading package lists...
>>> Building dependency tree...
>>> Reading state information...
>>> sysstat is already the newest version.
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 171 not upgraded.
>>> Selecting previously unselected package opscenter-agent.
>>> dpkg: regarding .../opscenter-agent.deb containing opscenter-agent:
>>> datastax-agent conflicts with opscenter-agent
>>> opscenter-agent (version 3.2.2) is to be installed.
>>> opscenter-agent provides opscenter-agent and is to be installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing opscenter_agent_setup.vYRzL0Tevn/opscenter-agent.deb
>>> (--install):
>>> conflicting packages - not installing opscenter-agent
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>> opscenter_agent_setup.vYRzL0Tevn/opscenter-agent.deb
>>> FAILURE: Unable to install the opscenter-agent package. Please check
>>> your apt-get configuration as well as the agent install log
>>> (/var/log/opscenter-agent/installer.log).
>>>
>>> Exit code: 1
>>>
>>
>>
>


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