[StarCluster] starcluster start command giving authentication error

[marcin joachimiak]

I ran the 'starcluster start' command with -d, here is more error information

[root at ip-10-170-21-142 StarCluster-0.92rc2]# starcluster -d start mycluster
StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.92rc2)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu

config.py:515 - DEBUG - Loading config
config.py:108 - DEBUG - Loading file: /root/.starcluster/config
config.py:515 - DEBUG - Loading config
config.py:108 - DEBUG - Loading file: /root/.starcluster/config
awsutils.py:54 - DEBUG - creating self._conn w/
connection_authenticator kwargs = {'path': '/', 'region': None,
'port': None, 'is_secure': True}
!!! ERROR - AuthFailure: AWS was not able to validate the provided
access credentials


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 15:33, marcin joachimiak
<marcinjoachimiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I now seem to have a functional install of starcluster, after
> rebuilding Python on CentOS.
>
> After having filling in the credentials in the config file I am
> issuing the command to start the out of the box 2 node smallcluster
> example:
>
> starcluster start mycluster
>
> which gives an authentication error:
>
> StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.92rc2)
> Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
> Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu
>
> !!! ERROR - AuthFailure: AWS was not able to validate the provided
> access credentials
>
> I've quadruple-checked the credentials and they appear to be correct.
> I am reusing my EC2 key I had generated through the web interface:
>
> KEY_LOCATION= /home/aws/marcinj.pem
>
> and assume this should work.
>
>
> any help much appreciated,
> marcin
>