[Openstack-docs] Install guide testing

Nicholas Chase nchase at mirantis.com
Tue Oct 15 18:22:35 UTC 2013


Thanks for the advice, Anne!

I'll try and get a couple of Ubuntu VMs spun up for this.

---  Nick

On 10/15/2013 12:25 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Nicholas Chase <nchase at mirantis.com
> <mailto:nchase at mirantis.com>> wrote:
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>     OK, I have a stupid question, but on the theory that if one person
>     has a stupid question, others probably do as well, I'm going to ask
>     it here.
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>     I'm trying to test Debian, but I'm getting errors that don't seem to
>     be "errors" so much as omissions.  For example, RabbitMQ won't start
>     up properly, so I'm guessing there's something else I need to do.
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> Good to ask questions early and often!
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>     Unfortunately, I'm not enough of an expert to know what to do to fix
>     this.
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>     So my first question is:  I got stuck in the very first steps, so
>     maybe it's best to punt on Debian and focus on Ubuntu?
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>
> Yeah, I'd say focus on Ubuntu.
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>     And my second question is: if not, where's the best place to get
>     help with something like that?  IRC?
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> Yes, IRC is good. In the past I would sit next to our private cloud
> deployers and pepper them with my questions either in person or via
> whatever chat they happened to be in. Because the install goes just like
> what you experienced, you can't get past one step to get to the next
> ones. :)
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> I'll be in IRC all day, and I'm also thinking about spinning up two
> cloud servers with Ubuntu 12.04 and having those accessible to others so
> when I do get stuck they can go in and fix. The key is to know how to
> explore what's causing the issue, and people in IRC can help with that.
>
>
>     ----  Nick
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