[Openstack-devel] Bug#672888: nova-common: cannot properly create database (Pg)

[Toni Mueller]

Package: nova-common
Version: 2012.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

trying to configure nova-common to use a postgresql database from the
dbconfig menu fails:

2012-05-14 15:48:12 CRITICAL nova [-] Could not determine dialect for 'pgsql'.


Kind regards,
--Toni++


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nova-common depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  dbconfig-common        1.8.47+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  python                 2.7.2-10
ii  python-amqplib         1.0.2-1
ii  python-iso8601         0.1.4-2
ii  python-nova            2012.1-2

nova-common recommends no packages.

nova-common suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/nova/nova.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/nova/nova.conf'

-- debconf information:
* nova-common/database-type: pgsql
  nova-common/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
  nova-common/pgsql/changeconf: false
  nova-common/install-error: abort
  nova-common/missing-db-package-error: abort
  nova-common/passwords-do-not-match:
  nova-common/dbconfig-reinstall: false
  nova-common/dbconfig-remove:
  nova-common/pgsql/manualconf:
* nova-common/dbconfig-install: true
  nova-common/mysql/method: unix socket
  nova-common/mysql/admin-user: root
* nova-common/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
  nova-common/internal/reconfiguring: false
* nova-common/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
  nova-common/remote/host:
  nova-common/db/basepath: /var/lib/nova
  nova-common/purge: false
* nova-common/db/app-user: novacommon
* nova-common/db/dbname: novadb
  nova-common/remove-error: abort
  nova-common/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  nova-common/remote/port:
  nova-common/upgrade-backup: true
  nova-common/internal/skip-preseed: false
  nova-common/remote/newhost:
* nova-common/pgsql/method: unix socket
* nova-common/pgsql/admin-user: postgres
  nova-common/upgrade-error: abort