[StarCluster] Can no longer connect to IPython clusters from a remote notebook

[Alessandro Gagliardi]

Weird. I did that and I thought it wasn't working. Maybe something else was
wrong. Regardless, it seems to be working now.

Thanks,
-A

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> IPython 0.14 rewrites the connection/handshake step, as well as
> serialization.  It is not compatible with 0.13, so you have to upgrade all
> IPythons  in a given cluster (engine, controller, and client) at once.
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Alessandro Gagliardi <
> alessandro at path.com> wrote:
>
>>  I had been able to run IPython Notebook locally and connect to
>> StarCluster using:
>> rc =
>> Client('/home/alessandro/.starcluster/ipcluster/myfourthcluster-us-west-1.json',
>> sshkey='/home/alessandro/.ssh/path-ops.pem', packer='pickle')
>> I upgraded IPython from 0.12 to 0.13 and it worked for the most part,
>> though I had some trouble at times, so following the advice at
>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/2171 I upgraded to 0.14. After
>> restarting myfourthcluster I was no longer able to connect. I was still
>> running 0.13 locally and was able to generate the attached crash report. I
>> noticed that my local copy of IPython was looking for a "url" field in the
>> JSON file which now looks like:
>> {
>>   "control": XXXXX,
>>   "task": XXXXX,
>>   "notification": XXXXX,
>>   "exec_key": "XXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
>>   "task_scheme": "leastload",
>>   "mux": XXXXX,
>>   "iopub": XXXXX,
>>   "ssh": "sgeadmin at ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com",
>>   "registration": XXXXX,
>>   "interface": "tcp://XX.XX.XX.XX",
>>   "pack": "pickle",
>>   "unpack": "pickle",
>>   "location": "XX.XX.XX.XX"
>> }
>> I noticed that a JSON file I had for an older instance looked quite
>> different:
>> {
>>   "url": "tcp:///XX.XX.XX.XX:XXXXX",
>>   "exec_key": XXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX,
>>   "ssh": "sgeadmin at ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com",
>>   "location": "XX.XX.XX.XX"
>> }
>> I tried adding a "url" field but could not figure out what to fill it
>> with.
>> I then figured that the problem could be because of a mismatch between
>> 0.13 on my local machine and 0.14 remotely, so I upgraded.
>> Now when I try the above Client command, it hangs indefinitely.
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> Thank you,
>> -Alessandro
>>
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