[Openstack-docs] Cinder and sql_connect/connection

chandan kumar chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 14:32:22 UTC 2014


Hello All,

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Anne Gentle
<annegentle at justwriteclick.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> One thing that caused many bug reports in the guide, is the usage of
>> connection in cinder. It moved during Havana development from
>> sql_connection in DEFAULT section to connection in database section but
>> the cinder.conf file was not properly regenerated.
>>
>> And some people had problems with setting connection like:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1245880
>>
>> And thus a patch was added (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63301/) and
>> backported that changed some places to use connection but did not update
>> everything - and now we get bug reports about this brokenness. I just
>> marked another bug as duplicate and thus decided to write this to find a
>> solution.
>>
>> For Icehouse, we should document the "connection" variant since this
>> just got fixed in cinder.conf - and those revert the patch
>>
>> For the Havana version of the install guide, we have two options:
>> * Use sql_connection in DEFAULT and cleanup the documentation.
>> * Revert the broken patch and use connection for all distributions
>>
>>
>> Bug report about cinder at:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1260322
>>
>> this was just approved for fixing:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61736/
>>
>> I'm now going to send a reversal patch for 63301 for the master branch.
>>
>> But I'd like to know what to do about Havana:
>> Revert - or update as well?
>
>
> Hm, toughie, thanks for bringing it up. I think we should explain the issue
> on ubuntu (as reported in 1245880, it requires sql_connection in DEFAULT)
> and cleanup.
>
>>
The /etc/cinder/cinder.conf config for database is in RHEl box for
havana sett up is:

sql_connection=mysql://cinder:85f2b63586034d33@10.65.193.5/cinder

>>
>> Chandan, will you take care of Havana? The bug is currently assigned to
>> you,
>>
>
> Much appreciated if you can do it!
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
>>
>> Andreas
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Thanks,
Chandan Kumar



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