[StarCluster] !!! ERROR - command 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew' . . . failed with status 100

[Alessandro Gagliardi]

Problem was solved when I ran apt-get update on all the nodes.

Shouldn't that be done automatically?


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:56 AM, <starcluster-request at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:04:34 -0700
> From: Alessandro Gagliardi <alessandro at path.com>
> Subject: [StarCluster] !!! ERROR - command
>         'DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt-get -o
>         Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew' . . . failed with status 100
> To: "starcluster at mit.edu" <starcluster at mit.edu>
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> Hello all,
>
> I've been having trouble with the pkginstaller plugin recently. I get the
> following error when it tries to install packages:
>
> > !!! ERROR - command 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt-get -o
> > Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew' -y --force-yes install g++ gfortran
> > git-core subversion python-all-dev python-virtualenv mongodb libblas-dev
> > liblapack-dev libatlas-dev r-base-core cython python-dateutil
> > python-requests python-pymongo python-rpy2 python-nltk r-base-core
> > mysql-client build-essential python-setuptools python-dev python-numpy
> > python-matplotlib prover9 python-scipy python-tz python-pandas
> > python-mysqldb libsnappy-dev python-xlwt msgpack-python lzop libpq-dev
> > python-psycopg2' failed with status 100
>
> I thought the problem might be because I was trying to start an Anaconda
> cluster using https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-ec2 but I tried
> spinning up a vanilla StarCluster just now and had the same problem. I also
> thought that it might be one of the packages causing a problem, but even
> when I reduced it to just g++ I got the same error. Any thoughts on how to
> fix would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Alessandro Gagliardi
> Data Scientist / Analytics Engineer
> Path, Inc.
> alessandro at path.com
>
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