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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Jian:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There's a problem with 0.95.5 with the latest version of boto package (<a href="https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/issues/455">https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/issues/455</a>).
 Justin's working on an update, but in the meantime you can do:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">pip uninstall boto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">pip install boto==2.32.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That should work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Let us know your results.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Hugh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"> starcluster-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:starcluster-bounces@mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jian Feng<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> starcluster@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [StarCluster] InvalidBlockDeviceMapping error<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Hi, just started trying starcluster. I was running the most simple 'mycluster' example, but got an error. Could you help? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">$ starcluster start mycluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">StarCluster - (<a href="http://star.mit.edu/cluster">http://star.mit.edu/cluster</a>) (v. 0.95.5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Please submit bug reports to
<a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu">starcluster@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">*** WARNING - Setting 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY' from environment...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">*** WARNING - Setting 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID' from environment...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Using default cluster template: smallcluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Validating cluster template settings...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Cluster template settings are valid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Starting cluster...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Launching a 2-node cluster...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&gt;&gt;&gt; Creating security group @sc-mycluster...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">!!! ERROR - InvalidBlockDeviceMapping: the encrypted flag cannot be specified since device /dev/sda1 has a snapshot specified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cli.py&quot;, line 274, in main<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; &nbsp; sc.execute(args)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/commands/start.py&quot;, line 244, in execute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; &nbsp; validate_running=validate_running)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cluster.py&quot;, line 1628, in start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; &nbsp; return self._start(create=create, create_only=create_only)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;&lt;string&gt;&quot;, line 2, in _start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/utils.py&quot;, line 112, in wrap_f<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cluster.py&quot;, line 1643, in _start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; &nbsp; self.create_cluster()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cluster.py&quot;, line 1163, in create_cluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cluster.py&quot;, line 1185, in _create_flat_rate_cluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; &nbsp; force_flat=True)[0]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/cluster.py&quot;, line 966, in create_nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/StarCluster-0.95.5-py2.7.egg/starcluster/awsutils.py&quot;, line 523, in request_instances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.34.0-py2.7.egg/boto/ec2/connection.py&quot;, line 974, in run_instances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; File &quot;/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto-2.34.0-py2.7.egg/boto/connection.py&quot;, line 1204, in get_object<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&lt;Response&gt;&lt;Errors&gt;&lt;Error&gt;&lt;Code&gt;InvalidBlockDeviceMapping&lt;/Code&gt;&lt;Message&gt;the encrypted flag cannot be specified since device /dev/sda1 has a snapshot specified.&lt;/Message&gt;&lt;/Error&gt;&lt;/Errors&gt;&lt;RequestID&gt;4d93f6fb-bcda-47bf-aef5-e2bf946ad2a2&lt;/RequestID&gt;&lt;/Response&gt;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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