[Maas-devel] Error: 403 FORBIDDEN (You are not allowed to start up this node.)

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 25/09/13 18:38, Dhastha wrote:
> I am getting following error while i run
>
> sudo juju bootstrap
>
> error: cannot start bootstrap instance: gomaasapi: got error back from
> server: 403 FORBIDDEN (You are not allowed to start up this node.)
>
> I have two nodes which is in Ready state. Can any one help me to resolve this?

This might happen if MAAS does not have a MAC address for the node, or 
possibly if Juju isn't logged into MAAS properly.  But there's another way.

We have a known bug (bug 1223088 on Launchpad) where sometimes nodes, 
once commissioned, are marked as having an owner.  If that owner is a 
different one from the account under which your Juju environment logs 
into MAAS, you won't be allowed to allocate it.

You can check for this in the node's UI page: does it show an Owner?  If 
it does, then you're hitting this problem.  Please let us know so we can 
prioritize the bug.

If this is what's happened, you should be able to reset the nodes to a 
normal state by temporarily making the MAAS account that you use for 
your Juju environment an administrator, allocating both nodes, and then 
taking away administrator status again.


Jeroen