[StarCluster] [newb] failed to start

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 21:19:32 EDT 2010


First test, failed to detect start

After waiting for a while at the 'Waiting for cluster to start', I went to 
amazon ec2 console and saw the 2 instances were running, at which point I did 
^C to starcluster cli.

 starcluster start smallcluster
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>>> Using default cluster template: smallcluster
>>> Validating cluster template settings...
>>> Cluster template settings are valid
>>> Starting cluster...
>>> Launching a 2-node cluster...
>>> Launching master node...
>>> Master AMI: ami-d1c42db8
>>> Creating security group @sc-masters...
>>> Creating security group @sc-smallcluster...
Reservation:r-ff805295
>>> Launching worker nodes...
>>> Node AMI: ami-d1c42db8
Reservation:r-f780529d
>>> Waiting for cluster to start.../  C-c C-ccli.py:1079 - ERROR - Request to 
start cluster 'smallcluster' was cancelled
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - Please be aware that instances may still be running. 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - You can check this from the output of:
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR -    $ starcluster listclusters
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - If you wish to destroy these instances please run:
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR -    $ starcluster stop smallcluster
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - You can then use:
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR -    $ starcluster listinstances
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - to verify that the instances have been terminated.
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - Another option is to use the AWS management console to
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - terminate the instances manually.
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - 
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - If you would like to re-use these instances, rerun the
cli.py:1079 - ERROR - same start command with the --no-create option



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