I tried the package that Matthias left on the link in the last comment (1.18.1). I received a similar but different error: goroutine 3 [syscall]: goroutine in C code; stack unavailable goroutine 10 [IO wait]: code.google.com_p_go.net_websocket.ReadByte.N57_code.google.c om_p_go.net_websocket.hybiFrameReaderFactory /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/code.google.com/p/go.net/websocket/hybi.go:113 code.google.com_p_go.net_websocket.NewFrameReader.N57_code.google.com_p_go.net_websocket.hybiFrameReaderFactory /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/code.google.com/p/go.net/websocket/hybi.go:126 code.google.com_p_go.net_websocket.Receive.N40_code.google.com_p_go.net_websocket.Codec /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/code.google.com/p/go.net/websocket/websocket.go:314 launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc_jsoncodec.Receive.N48_launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc_jsoncodec.wsJSONConn /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/rpc/jsoncodec/conn.go:25 launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc_jsoncodec.ReadHeader.pN43_launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc_jsoncodec.Codec /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/rpc/jsoncodec/codec.go:113 launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.loop.pN32_launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.Conn /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/rpc/server.go:344 launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.input.pN32_launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.Conn /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/rpc/server.go:317 created by launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.Start.pN32_launchpad.net_juju_core_rpc.Conn /build/buildd/juju-core-1.18.1/src/launchpad.net/juju-core/rpc/server.go:200 ubuntu@stilson-01:~$ ubuntu@stilson-01:~$ uname -a Linux stilson-01 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:50:31 UTC 2014 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux ubuntu@stilson-01:~$ dpkg -l | grep juju ii juju 1.18.1-0ubuntu1.1 all next generation service orchestration system ii juju-core 1.18.1-0ubuntu1.1 ppc64el Juju is devops distilled - client ii juju-deployer 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 all Deploy complex stacks of services using Juju ii juju-jitsu 0.20-1 all external tools to enhance juju ii juju-local 1.18.1-0ubuntu1.1 all dependency package for the Juju local provider ii juju-mongodb 2.4.9-0ubuntu3 ppc64el MongoDB object/document-oriented database for Juju ii juju-quickstart 1.4.1+bzr88+ppa25~ubuntu14.04.1 all Easy configuration of Juju environments ii python-jujuclient 0.17.5-0ubuntu2 all Python API client for juju ubuntu@stilson-01:~$ getconf PAGE_SIZE 65536 The dmesg output looks different will attach that as well.