[StarCluster] starcluster start error

[Justin Riley]

  On 11/4/10 1:04 PM, Hui Zhao wrote:
> Why does it complain it's
> invalid?
Hmmm, do yo have quotes around the settings (ie AWS_ACCESS_KEY="myid") ? 
If so, remove them. Also, are you sure you haven't mixed up your access 
key and secret access key in the config? Perhaps you need to swap them.
> For the keypair, that is the one with .pem extension, right?
Well, maybe. Do you recall explicitly creating a new keypair? You do not 
automatically get a keypair when you first create an AWS/EC2 account. 
You must explicitly create a new keypair either using the AWS Management 
Console or running the EC2 command line tool "ec2-add-keypair". The EC2 
Getting Started Guide runs you through this. If you don't recall doing 
this at some point then the *.pem file(s) you are referring to are 
likely your EC2 certificate and private certificate files for your AWS 
account which are not the same.

I would recommend logging into the AWS Management Console and checking 
to see if you have any keypairs listed. I believe you can download your 
existing keys (if any) from the management console as well. If you don't 
have any keypairs, it's easy to create a new one and the management 
console will prompt you to download the key file. You should then use 
the location you download the keypair file to as key_location in a [key] 
section. Does that make sense?

~Justin