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nova-manage crashes when mysql root password contains special chars

Asked by Pierre-Olivier Vauboin

When the mysql root password contains special chars (especially $ and @), nova-manage fails when trying to synchronize the database.

root@host:~# nova-manage db sync
Command failed, please check log for more info

Please find attached an extract of /var/log/nova/nova-manage.log

(nova): TRACE: KeyError: 'ABCD'
The root mysql password would be in this case something like $ABCD@

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This question was originally filed as bug #805536.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) said : 		#1

This is in fact desired behavior: flags value are actually Template strings, and "$ABCD" serves to reference the value of the ABCD flag.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) said : 		#2

Flag values are actually Python Template strings.

You should use "$$" to represent "$" in a flag value.

See for details: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#template-strings

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