[Rdo-list] Can't Deploy Foreman with openstack-foreman-installer for Bare Metal Provisioning (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass)

Thu May 8 15:23:07 UTC 2014

On 8 May 2014, at 02:25, Gilles Dubreuil <gilles at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ramon Acedo" <ramon at linux-labs.net>
>> To: rdo-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, 30 April, 2014 2:14:59 AM
>> Subject: [Rdo-list] Can't Deploy Foreman with openstack-foreman-installer	for Bare Metal Provisioning (undefined
>> method `[]' for nil:NilClass)
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have been trying to test the OpenStack Foreman Installer with different
>> combinations of Foreman versions and of the installer itself (and even
>> different versions of Puppet) with no success so far.
>> 
>> I know that Packstack alone works but I want to go all the way with multiple
>> hosts and bare metal provisioning to eventually use it for large deployments
>> and scale out Nova Compute and other services seamlessly.
>> 
>> The error I get when running the foreman_server.sh script is always:
>> --------------
>> rake aborted!
>> undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
>> 
>> Tasks: TOP => db:seed
>> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>> --------------
> 
> The above usually indicates there is something wrong with at least one puppet class.
> Do you have openstack-puppet-modules installed?
> 
> Some of the devil's details:
> foreman_server.sh triggers foreman's rake to seed its database.
> The nil:NiClass means something is missing and usually when it happens, to be confirmed with rake's trace/logs it's because at least one puppet class is wrong (not validated).
> The above is happening because seeding script also parses puppet classes' parameters in order to inject them into Foreman.

After modifying the script to use "rake —trace” this is what I got:

+ sudo -u foreman scl enable ruby193 'cd /usr/share/foreman; rake --trace db:seed RAILS_ENV=production FOREMAN_PROVISIONING=true'
** Invoke db:seed (first_time)
** Execute db:seed
** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Execute db:load_config
** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/05-architectures.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/07-config_templates.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/08-partition_tables.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/10-installation_media.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/11-permissions.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/11-roles.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/11-smart_proxy_features.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/12-auth_sources.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/13-compute_profiles.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/15-bookmarks.rb
Seeding /usr/share/foreman/db/seeds.d/99-quickstack.rb
rake aborted!
undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

I’m still trying to  further debug it.

> Cheers,
> Gilles
> 
>> 
>> After that, if Foreman starts, there’s nothing in the "Host groups" section
>> which is supposed to be prepopulated by the foreman_server.sh script (as
>> described in http://red.ht/1jdJ03q).
>> 
>> The process I follow is very simple:
>> 
>> 1. Install a clean RHEL 6.5 or CentOS 6.5
>> 
>> 2. Enable EPEL
>> 
>> 3. Enable the rdo-release repo:
>> 
>>  a. rdo-release-havana-7: Foreman 1.3 and openstack-foreman-installer 1.0.6
>>  b. rdo-release-havana-8: Foreman 1.5 and openstack-foreman-installer 1.0.6
>>  c. rdo-release-icehouse-3: Foreman 1.5 and openstack-foreman-installer 2.0
>>  (as a note here, the SCL repo needs to be enabled before the next step
>>  too).
>> 
>> 4. Install openstack-foreman-installer
>> 
>> 5. Create and export the needed variables:
>> 
>>   export PROVISIONING_INTERFACE=eth0
>>   export FOREMAN_GATEWAY=192.168.5.100
>>   export FOREMAN_PROVISIONING=true
>> 
>> 6. Run the script foreman_server.sh from
>> /usr/share/openstack-foreman-installer/bin
>> 
>> For 3a and 3b I also tried with an older version of Puppet (3.2) with the
>> same result.
>> 
>> These are the full outputs:
>> 
>> 3a: http://fpaste.org/97739/ (Havana and Foreman 1.3)
>> 3b: http://fpaste.org/97760/ (Havana and Foreman 1.3 with Puppet 3.2)
>> 3c: http://fpaste.org/97838/ (Icehouse and Foreman 1.5)
>> 
>> I’m sure somebody in the list has tried to deploy and configure Foreman for
>> bare metal installations (DHCP+PXE) and the documentation and the
>> foreman_server.sh script suggest it should be possible in a fairly easy way.
>> 
>> I filled a bug as it might well be one, pending confirmation:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092443
>> 
>> Any help is really appreciated!
>> 
>> Many thanks.
>> 
>> Ramon
>> 
>> 
>> 
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