[StarCluster] InvalidParameterCombination error with General Purpose SSD AMIs

[Ying Sonia Ting]

Hi,

I'm new to StarCluster but I ran into this bug before.

The AMIs in question in my case were my customized AMIs that I modified
(adding tools and such) from the public StarCluster AMI.  What I found is
that although the customized AMIs was based on fully-StarCluster-functional
AMI with volume type=Magnetic, the instance I used to modify AMIs used gp2
SSD.  My workaround was 1) start an instance with the customized
StarCluster-not-functional AMI and specify volume type=Magnetic for that
instance. 2) create an AMI from the instance.  The resulting AMI
became fully-StarCluster-functional
again (at least in my case).

Hope this is helpful and hope that in the near future StarCluster will
support gp2 volumes as others have requested here
https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/issues/264

Cheers,
Sonia



On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:30 AM, MacMullan, Hugh <hughmac at wharton.upenn.edu>
wrote:

>  Hi StarCluster Community:
>
>
>
> I just submitted an 'issue' (
> https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/issues/448), but I thought I would
> mention this here as well, in case someone has any thoughts.
>
>
>
> When using an AMI with volume type = General Purpose (SSD), I get (in
> debug.log):
>
>
>
> 2014-09-25 11:08:08,984 PID: 8599 awsutils.py:497 - DEBUG - Forcing
> delete_on_termination for AMI: ami-083b8e60
>
> 2014-09-25 11:08:09,120 PID: 8599 cli.py:277 - ERROR -
> InvalidParameterCombination: The parameter iops is not supported for gp2
> volumes.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cli.py", line 274, in
> main
>
>     sc.execute(args)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/commands/start.py",
> line 244, in execute
>
>     validate_running=validate_running)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cluster.py", line
> 1628, in start
>
>     return self._start(create=create, create_only=create_only)
>
>   File "<string>", line 2, in _start
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/utils.py", line 112,
> in wrap_f
>
>     res = func(*arg, **kargs)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cluster.py", line
> 1643, in _start
>
>     self.create_cluster()
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cluster.py", line
> 1163, in create_cluster
>
>     self._create_flat_rate_cluster()
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cluster.py", line
> 1185, in _create_flat_rate_cluster
>
>     force_flat=True)[0]
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/cluster.py", line
> 966, in create_nodes
>
>     resvs.append(self.ec2.request_instances(image_id, **kwargs))
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/awsutils.py", line
> 525, in request_instances
>
>     **shared_kwargs)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/starcluster/awsutils.py", line
> 626, in run_instances
>
>     return self.conn.run_instances(image_id, **kwargs)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/boto/ec2/connection.py", line
> 975, in run_instances
>
>     verb='POST')
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/boto/connection.py", line 1188,
> in get_object
>
>     raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body)
>
> EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <Response><Errors><Error><Code>InvalidParameterCombination</Code><Message>The
> parameter iops is not supported for gp2
> volumes.</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>c8306558-f673-4fb6-9ea1-64b4d6fdd1c7</RequestID></Response>
>
>
>
> The AMIs in question are clones of fully-StarCluster-functional volume
> type = Magnetic.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Hugh
>
> _______________________________________________
> StarCluster mailing list
> StarCluster at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster
>
>


-- 
Ying S. Ting
Graduate Student, MacCoss Lab
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/starcluster/attachments/20140925/eadaae8c/attachment.htm