[Labs-l] Collection of error messages from newly created instances?

Mon Jan 21 18:13:20 UTC 2013

Hm. I think separate bugs per issue would be good. Instances can fail to
build in a lot of different ways. If we have a single bug for this, then
we'll have a bug that can't really be closed.

- Ryan

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> My experience with adding instances in labsconsole is that at least 1/3
> of them never reach a usable state so I delete them, create new ones
> which work. I only started to look more closely at the console log now
> and was wondering if there is a place where those error messages are
> collected.
>
> E.g. today I got an instance that failed to install ldap stuff which
> entailed a bunch of errors:
>
> Jan 21 16:40:58 wikidata-testclient puppet-agent[1078]:
> (/Stage[first]/Apt::Update/Exec[/usr/bin/apt-get update]/returns)
> executed successfully
> Jan 21 16:41:01 wikidata-testclient puppet-agent[1078]:
> (/Stage[main]/Ldap::Client::Autofs/Package[autofs5-ldap]/ensure) change
> from absent to latest failed: Could not update: Execution of
> '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install
> autofs5-ldap' returned 100: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually
> run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. #012 at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/ldap.pp:470
>
> Would you like to collect such things and if so where? (Separate
> tickets? A common place?)
>
> Best,
> Silke
>
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