Bug 1815181

Summary:	Rerunning openstack undercloud install fails when using output_dir --- Error message: The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing. This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Andreas Karis <akaris>
Component:	python-tripleoclient	Assignee:	Kevin Carter <kecarter>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Rosenfeld <drosenfe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	16.1 (Train)	CC:	aschultz, drosenfe, emacchi, hbrock, jhajyahy, jslagle, kecarter, mburns
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	Triaged, ZStream
Target Release:	16.1 (Train on RHEL 8.2)
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Description Andreas Karis 2020-03-19 17:50:19 UTC

Rerunning openstack undercloud install fails when using output_dir  --- Error message: The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing.  This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.

Redeployment fails with:
~~~
Error message: The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing.  This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.
~~~

Customer provided this in undercloud.conf:
~~~
output_dir = /home/stack/undercloud-deployment-output-directory
~~~

- deploy the undecloud. The initial deployment will complete with below message:
~~~
<snip>
[...]
##########################################################

The Undercloud has been successfully installed.

Useful files:

Password file is at ~/undercloud-passwords.conf
The stackrc file is at ~/stackrc

Use these files to interact with OpenStack services, and
ensure they are secured.

##########################################################
</snip>
~~~

- update any configuration from the undercloud conf
- try to redeploy
- it will fail with:
---
Error message: The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing.  This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.
---


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More details:

~~~
(undercloud) [stack@786895-director01 ~]$ openstack undercloud install
The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing.  This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.
An error occurred during configuration validation, please check your host configuration and try again.
Error message: The /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf file is missing.  This will cause all service passwords to change and break the existing undercloud.
~~~

Workaround:
~~~
(undercloud) [stack@786895-director01 ~]$ find . -name undercloud-passwords.conf
./undercloud-deployment-output-directory/undercloud-passwords.conf
(undercloud) [stack@786895-director01 ~]$ cp ./undercloud-deployment-output-directory/undercloud-passwords.conf .
~~~

~~~
[stack@786895-director01 ~]$ openstack undercloud install
Running: (... this now works ...)
~~~

Comment 8 Jad Haj Yahya 2020-07-21 12:15:26 UTC

Move undercloud-passwords.conf file  to /home/stack/undercloud-deployment-output-directory/ and rerun undercloud deployment

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-29 07:51:01 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:3148