Error when starting masakari-controller

[chtwerdna]

Hello,

I downloaded the master branch of this project.
now I can vagrant up the controller and compute nodes.
(with some try and error but adding apt-get and pip cmd to vagrantfile fixed them).
deploy OpenStack in Controller/Compute and devstack started OK.

but when I try to start the masakari-controller it's not running
stack@controller:~ /devstack$ sudo service masakari-controller start
Starting masakari: *
stack@controller:~ /devstack$ sudo service masakari-controller status
** masakari is not running

the only error I found in the log is:
stack@controller:~/masakari$ cat /var/log/masakari/masakari-controller.log
Feb 06 03:23:18 masakari(20458): CRITICAL: An error during initializing masakari controller: No option 'log_file' in section: 'log''
Feb 06 03:23:18 masakari(20458): ERROR: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>'
Feb 06 03:23:18 masakari(20458): ERROR: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/log/masakari/''
Feb 06 03:23:18 masakari(20458): ERROR: File "/opt/masakari/controller/masakari_controller.py", line 102, in init
os.makedirs(log_dir)
'
Feb 06 03:23:18 masakari(20458): ERROR: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
'

any idea how to fix this? Thanks.

[sampathP]

Hi Chtwerdna,
It seems that, masakari failed to init the log file directory and create the log file.
Could you please share the [log] section of your masakari.conf file.
You may retry after completely delete the "/var/log/masakari",
DO NOT FORGET to backup the previous log files before delete it.

And, if you have no strong reason to use this older version of Masakari,
I strongly recommend you to move to latest version of Masakari in Openstack.

[chtwerdna]

Hi sampathP,

Thanks for the hint.
the [log] section in my /etc/masakari/masakari-controller.conf only has one line.

[log]
log_level = info

After googling I found masakari has a sample file for this conf.
https://github.com/ntt-sic/masakari/blob/master/masakari-controller/etc/masakari-controller.conf.sample
(there is also a sample file in the directory: /etc/masakari/masakari-controller.conf.sample )

is these two file I found the missing configurations.
After adding the following two lines, the controller starts normally.
log_file = /var/log/masakari/masakari-controller.log
logging_context_format_string = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s %(name)s [%(threadName)s] %(message)s

By the way, I know that there's a latest version of masakari, but I'm using OpenStack mikata.
Also this is the first try to verify the function and behaviors so I just need a quick setup environment.
After this I may try the new masakari in Openstack.

Thanks again for both the hint and the recommendation.

[sampathP]

Hi Chtwerdna,
As you found out, with log settings, this should work fine.
Even in openstack masakari, masakari-monitors and python-masakariclient,
you can find the samples of required config file and you can generate the full config file with tox.
Let us know if you need any help..