I just got this stack trace:<br><br><br>daniel-yaminss-macbook-pro:~ dyamins$ starcluster start govcluster32 testcluster<br>/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Crypto/Hash/SHA.py:6: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead<br>
  from sha import *<br>/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Crypto/Hash/MD5.py:6: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead<br>  from md5 import *<br>
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/Magic.py:38: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated<br>  from sets import Set<br>StarCluster - (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/starcluster">http://web.mit.edu/starcluster</a>)<br>
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)<br>Please submit bug reports to <a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu">starcluster@mit.edu</a><br><br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Validating cluster settings...<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Cluster settings are valid<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Starting cluster...<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Launching a 2-node cluster...<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Launching master node...<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Master AMI: ami-f129c798<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Creating security group @sc-testcluster...<br>
Reservation:r-fa979f92<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Launching worker nodes...<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Node AMI: ami-f129c798<br>Reservation:r-fc979f94<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Waiting for cluster to start... <br>&gt;&gt;&gt; The master node is <br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Attaching volume vol-c3d927aa to master node...<br>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>EC2ResponseError                          Traceback (most recent call last)<br><br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/bin/starcluster in &lt;module&gt;()<br>
      5 del require<br>      6 __file__ = &#39;/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/bin/starcluster&#39;<br>----&gt; 7 execfile(__file__)<br>      8 <br>      9 <br><br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/bin/starcluster in &lt;module&gt;()<br>
      4 if __name__ == &#39;__main__&#39;:<br>      5     try:<br>----&gt; 6         cli.main()<br>      7     except KeyboardInterrupt:<br>      8         print &quot;Interrupted, exiting.&quot;<br><br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/starcluster/cli.pyc in main()<br>
    770         sys.exit(0)<br>    771     try:<br>--&gt; 772         sc.execute(args)<br>    773     except exception.BaseException,e:<br>    774         log.error(e.msg)<br><br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/starcluster/cli.pyc in execute(self, args)<br>
    169             <a href="http://log.info">log.info</a>(&#39;Cluster settings are valid&#39;)<br>    170             if not self.opts.validate_only:<br>--&gt; 171                 scluster.start(create=not self.opts.no_create)<br>
    172                 if self.opts.login_master:<br>    173                        cluster.ssh_to_master(tag, self.cfg)<br><br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/starcluster/utils.pyc in wrapper(*arg, **kargs)<br>     23         &quot;&quot;&quot;Raw timing function &quot;&quot;&quot;<br>
     24         time1 = time.time()<br>---&gt; 25         res = func(*arg, **kargs)<br>     26         time2 = time.time()<br>     27         <a href="http://log.info">log.info</a>(&#39;%s took %0.3f mins&#39; % (func.func_name, (time2-time1)/60.0))<br>
<br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/starcluster/cluster.pyc in start(self, create)<br>    399 <br>    400         if self.volumes:<br>--&gt; 401             self.attach_volumes_to_master()<br>    402 <br>    403         <a href="http://log.info">log.info</a>(&quot;Setting up the cluster...&quot;)<br>
<br>/Users/dyamins/StarCluster/starcluster/cluster.pyc in attach_volumes_to_master(self)<br>    356                          % <a href="http://vol.id">vol.id</a>)<br>    357                 continue<br>--&gt; 358             resp = vol.attach(<a href="http://self.master_node.id">self.master_node.id</a>, device)<br>
    359             log.debug(&quot;resp = %s&quot; % resp)<br>    360             while True:<br><br>/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/boto-1.9b-py2.6.egg/boto/ec2/volume.pyc in attach(self, instance_id, device)<br>
    111         :return: True if successful<br>    112         &quot;&quot;&quot;<br>--&gt; 113         return self.connection.attach_volume(<a href="http://self.id">self.id</a>, instance_id, device)<br>    114 <br>    115     def detach(self, force=False):<br>
<br>/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/boto-1.9b-py2.6.egg/boto/ec2/connection.pyc in attach_volume(self, volume_id, instance_id, device)<br>   1018                   &#39;VolumeId&#39; : volume_id,<br>
   1019                   &#39;Device&#39; : device}<br>-&gt; 1020         return self.get_status(&#39;AttachVolume&#39;, params)<br>   1021 <br>   1022     def detach_volume(self, volume_id, instance_id=None, device=None, force=False):<br>
<br>/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/boto-1.9b-py2.6.egg/boto/connection.pyc in get_status(self, action, params, path, parent, verb)<br>    645             boto.log.error(&#39;%s %s&#39; % (response.status, response.reason))<br>
    646             boto.log.error(&#39;%s&#39; % body)<br>--&gt; 647             raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body)<br>    648 <br>    649 <br><br>EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request<br>
&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;<br>&lt;Response&gt;&lt;Errors&gt;&lt;Error&gt;&lt;Code&gt;IncorrectState&lt;/Code&gt;&lt;Message&gt;Instance &#39;i-373a585c&#39; is not &#39;running&#39;.&lt;/Message&gt;&lt;/Error&gt;&lt;/Errors&gt;&lt;RequestID&gt;432e92f8-8660-4f92-a6e8-5e70ff37d2d2&lt;/RequestID&gt;&lt;/Response&gt;<br>
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