Bug 1006476

Summary:	ERROR : Error during puppet run : Error: /Stage[main]/Nova::Network/Sysctl::Value[net.ipv4.ip_forward]/Sysctl[net.ipv4.ip_forward]: Could not evaluate: Field 'val' is required
Product:	[Community] RDO	Reporter:	Russell Bryant <rbryant>
Component:	openstack-packstack	Assignee:	Martin Magr <mmagr>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	yeylon <yeylon>
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Description Russell Bryant 2013-09-10 16:48:02 UTC

Description of problem:

I got the following error at the end of my packstack run:

ERROR : Error during puppet run : Error: /Stage[main]/Nova::Network/Sysctl::Value[net.ipv4.ip_forward]/Sysctl[net.ipv4.ip_forward]: Could not evaluate: Field 'val' is required
Please check log file /var/tmp/packstack/20130910-161016-XZuzzQ/openstack-setup.log for more information

Additional information:
 * Time synchronization installation was skipped. Please note that unsynchronized time on server instances might be problem for some OpenStack components.
 * Did not create a cinder volume group, one already existed
 * To use the command line tools you need to source the file /root/keystonerc_admin created on 162.209.97.160
 * To use the console, browse to http://162.209.97.160/dashboard
 * To use Nagios, browse to http://162.209.97.160/nagios username : nagiosadmin, password : a78e83d1b8d443ad


Note that the run did not actually complete successfully, despite the output acting like it did.  httpd isn't running.  I don't have a keystoncrc_admin file, either.

the packstack log contains the following traceback:

2013-09-10 16:21:24::ERROR::run_setup::913::root:: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 908, in main
    _main(confFile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 577, in _main
    runSequences()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py", line 554, in runSequences
    controller.runAllSequences()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/setup_controller.py", line 90, in runAllSequences
    sequence.run(self.CONF)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/core/sequences.py", line 105, in run
    step.run(config=config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/installer/core/sequences.py", line 52, in run
    raise SequenceError(str(ex))
SequenceError: Error during puppet run : Error: /Stage[main]/Nova::Network/Sysctl::Value[net.ipv4.ip_forward]/Sysctl[net.ipv4.ip_forward]: Could not evaluate: Field 'val' is requiredESC[0m



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openstack-packstack-2013.2.1-0.7.dev752.el6.noarch


Additional info:

This is on CentOS 6.4.  The run I was doing was "--allinone --os-neutron-install=n".

Comment 1 Russell Bryant 2013-09-12 18:00:55 UTC

Dan Smith got this same failure.  He tried it with Neutron instead of Nova Networking and got the same failure again.

We then realized that we were both trying this on Rackspace.  This is quite likely a problem specific to that environment (IP forwarding not allowed to be turned on).

So, it seems like the failure is probably expected in this environment, but it just needs to be handled more gracefully so that's more clear what has happened.