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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 22:52, Deepak Mohanty <dmohanty at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I need your help with installation of placement service on Ubuntu 
> 20.04. I have followed the steps in:
> https://docs.openstack.org/placement/wallaby/install/install-ubuntu.html
> 
> I am facing the following issue when I try to verify the installation:
> $ placement-status upgrade check
> Error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_upgradecheck/upgradecheck.py", 
> line 196, in run
>     return conf.command.action_fn()
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_upgradecheck/upgradecheck.py", 
> line 104, in check
>     result = func_name(self, **kwargs)
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_upgradecheck/common_checks.py", 
> line 41, in check_policy_json
>     policy_path = conf.find_file(conf.oslo_policy.policy_file)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_config/cfg.py", line 
> 2543, in find_file
>     raise NotInitializedError()
> oslo_config.cfg.NotInitializedError: call expression on parser has 
> not been invoked

I think you hit the bug [1]. The fix has been merged to master and a 
backport is proposed to stable/wallaby as well[2].

Cheers,
gibi

[1] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2008831
[2] https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:story/2008831

> 
> I did a bit of debugging and found that the policy file is: 
> policy.json. I could not find any policy.json on my machine. I 
> created an empty policy.json at: /etc/placement/policy.json (user and 
> group = placement). That too did not work.
> 
> I have followed the steps in the install guide twice, deleting the 
> placement database and other resources and recreating them. I 
> continue to see the same issue.
> 
> Thank you for your time.