[Openstack-docs] Cinder and sql_connect/connection

Anne Gentle annegentle at justwriteclick.com
Fri Jan 10 14:10:21 UTC 2014


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.


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


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