[StarCluster] starcluster start error (Hui Zhao)

Fri Nov 5 14:33:03 EDT 2010

Hui...

I had no problem getting it to work for me when I tried to follow the
instructions.
I'm not sure if it matters but I removed the dashes "-" from my AWS User ID
number ?

For the keypair I just used one of my existing AWS keypair's.

Brian

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Today's Topics:

  1. starcluster start error (Hui Zhao)
  2. Re: starcluster start error (Justin Riley)
  3. Re: starcluster start error (Hui Zhao)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:04:56 -0400
From: "Hui Zhao" <zhaoh at cbio.mskcc.org>
Subject: [StarCluster] starcluster start error
To: starcluster at mit.edu
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Hi,
What is the minimal parameters needed for the starcluster config file?
I only edited the uncommented ones in the template config before the
section of "configure EBS Volumes". I got error shown as below. I
copied AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from my aws account
including the 12 digits AWS_USER_ID. Why does it complain it's
invalid? For the keypair, that is the one with .pem extension, right?
I cannot fine the file cluster.py either. Please advise.
Thanks,
Julia

-bash-3.2$ starcluster start smallcluster
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 >>> Using default cluster template: smallcluster
 >>> Validating cluster template settings...
cluster.py:766 - ERROR - Invalid AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY combination.
cli.py:243 - ERROR - settings for cluster template "smallcluster" are
not valid

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:19:15 -0400
From: Justin Riley <jtriley at MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [StarCluster] starcluster start error
To: starcluster at MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <4CD2EB13.60607 at mit.edu>
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 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

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:06:00 -0400
From: "Hui Zhao" <zhaoh at cbio.mskcc.org>
Subject: Re: [StarCluster] starcluster start error
To: "Justin Riley" <jtriley at mit.edu>
Cc: starcluster at mit.edu
Message-ID: <53475FBA-93F9-4230-8457-C9BE840F9C5E at cbio.mskcc.org>
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Justin,
Thanks for the quick response. It's my mistake - I copied the
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from my aws account, somehow the last digit was
modified. Once it's corrected, I was able to start the default
smallcluster.  This mailing list is very helpful and I feel more
courage to explore it further.
Thanks again,
Julia

On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Justin Riley wrote:

>  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
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