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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">having some</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> trouble with horizon on centos 6.3. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve followed the installation instructions at:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/install/yum/content/ch_install-dashboard.html#dashboard-system-requirements"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/install/yum/content/ch_install-dashboard.html#dashboard-system-requirements</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I had this working, but following a reboot, horizon hasn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t come right. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve tried reinstalling it, but I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m getting nowhere. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve got me</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">mcached running:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[root@wonky openstack-dashboard]# netstat -an | grep 11211</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:11211 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">tcp 0 0 :::11211 :::* LISTEN </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:11211 0.0.0.0:* </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">udp 0 0 :::11211 :::* </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[root@wonky openstack-dashboard]# ps -ea | grep memcached</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 3318 ? 00:00:00 memcached</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[root@wonky openstack-dashboard]# service memcached status</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">memcached (pid 3318) is running...</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">But with this config in my /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_se</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ttings file:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/'</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I get a django runtime error when I try to load the dashboard: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Unable to create a new session key.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ve seen others resolve this problem by installing or starting memcached, but memcached is running in my environment.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Can anyone shed any light on how I can resolve this problem?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Here is the database stanza from the local_settings file:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"># FIXME: We need to change this to mysql, instead of sqlite.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">DATABASES = {</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'default': {</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'NAME': 'dash',</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'USER': 'dash',</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'PASSWORD': 'dash',</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'HOST': 'localhost',</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 'default-character-set': 'utf8'</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> },</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">}</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/'</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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