maas-deployer failed on already install maas

Hi Narinder, first comment i'd make which is not directly related is that you should not run maas-deployer as root (there is no need to). Second, can you tell me what version of python-maas-client you have installed? (the above would indicate that somehow you do not have this installed anymore yet it is a package dependency of maas-deployer).

I tried all means removing the maas-deployer and python-maas-client and other components. And still finding the same issue only on this server. I have two other systems where issue was not seen. I can not reimage this server as this is main CI server.

here is pytthon maas-client.
python-maas-client:
  Installed: 1.9.0+bzr4533-0ubuntu1~trusty1
  Candidate: 1.9.0+bzr4533-0ubuntu1~trusty1
  Version table:
 *** 1.9.0+bzr4533-0ubuntu1~trusty1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/maas/stable/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.7.6+bzr3376-0ubuntu2~14.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.5.4+bzr2294-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
jenkins@jumphost2:~$

jenkins@jumphost2:~$ sudo apt-cache policy maas-deployer
maas-deployer:
  Installed: 0.0.5-0ubuntu0
  Candidate: 0.0.5-0ubuntu0
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.5-0ubuntu0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/maas-deployers/stable/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
jenkins@jumphost2:~$

Today i got another unit exhibiting the same behavior so virus is spreading before it affects the real customers. We need to understand the issue and find the root cause.

+ sudo maas-deployer -c deployment.yaml -d --force
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/maas-deployer", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('maas-deployer==0.0.6', 'console_scripts', 'maas-deployer')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 558, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2682, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2355, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2361, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maas_deployer/cli.py", line 25, in <module>
    from maas_deployer.vmaas.engine import DeploymentEngine
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maas_deployer/vmaas/engine.py", line 28, in <module>
    from maas_deployer.vmaas.maasclient import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maas_deployer/vmaas/maasclient/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from maas_deployer.vmaas.maasclient.apidriver import APIDriver
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/maas_deployer/vmaas/maasclient/apidriver.py", line 9, in <module>
    from apiclient import maas_client as maas
ImportError: cannot import name maas_client
jenkins@jumphostpod6:~/opnfv/slave_root/workspace/joid-deploy-intel-pod6-daily-master/ci$

Hi Narinder, can I ask you for the following:

  * please upgrade to the latest maas client
  * confirm that the issue still exists with the latest packages (currently 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1)
  * provide the output of dpkg -l| grep maas

i still can see same issue with latest maas client as well.
any maas commands can not run simple export also failing.

jenkins@jumphost2:~$ maas maas nodes list
/usr/bin/python: No module named maas_client; 'maascli' is a package and cannot be directly executed
jenkins@jumphost2:~$

jenkins@jumphost2:~$ dpkg -l | grep maas
ii maas-cli 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS command line API tool
ii maas-deployer 0.0.6-0ubuntu0.1 all MAAS cluster deployment tool.
ii python-maas-client 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS python API client
jenkins@jumphost2:~$

I think something is FUBAR with the python-maas-client installation here. I think purging and reinstalling may fix your problem.

still finding the same issue after doing the purge and reinstall.

finally got the problem when we pip install google-api-python-client then it creates an path entry of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/googleapiclient
so /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ is before /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ in path which casues the issue. After removing the google-api-python-client it worked fine but I think it has to be fixed in package also so in case of mutiple option in path it should able to figure it out.