Below is trace from trying to access with ~/path. I also did the echo as per Nick (see the last line), looks ok to me. This is my development box with Spark 1.2.0 running CentOS 6.5, Python 2.6.6
[pete.zybrick@pz-lt2-ipc spark-1.2.0]$ ec2/spark-ec2 --key-pair=spark-streaming-kp --identity-file=~/.pzkeys/spark-streaming-kp.pem --region=us-east-1 login pz-spark-cluster Searching for existing cluster pz-spark-cluster... Found 1 master(s), 3 slaves Logging into master ec2-54-152-95-129.compute-1.amazonaws.com... Warning: Identity file ~/.pzkeys/spark-streaming-kp.pem not accessible: No such file or directory. Permission denied (publickey). Traceback (most recent call last): File "ec2/spark_ec2.py", line 1082, in <module> main() File "ec2/spark_ec2.py", line 1074, in main real_main() File "ec2/spark_ec2.py", line 1007, in real_main ssh_command(opts) + proxy_opt + ['-t', '-t', "%s@%s" % (opts.user, master)]) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 505, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ssh', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-i', '~/.pzkeys/spark-streaming-kp.pem', '-t', '-t', u'r...@ec2-54-152-95-129.compute-1.amazonaws.com']' returned non-zero exit status 255 [pete.zybrick@pz-lt2-ipc spark-1.2.0]$ echo ~/.pzkeys/spark-streaming-kp.pem /home/pete.zybrick/.pzkeys/spark-streaming-kp.pem On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Charles Feduke <charles.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I agree ~ should work. And it could have been [read: probably was] > the fact that one of the EC2 hosts was in my known_hosts (don't know, never > saw an error message, but the behavior is no error message for that state), > which I had fixed later with Pete's patch. But the second execution when > things worked with an absolute path could have worked because the random > hosts that came up on EC2 were never in my known_hosts. > > > On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 3:45:36 PM Nicholas Chammas < > nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hmm, I can’t see why using ~ would be problematic, especially if you >> confirm that echo ~/path/to/pem expands to the correct path to your >> identity file. >> >> If you have a simple reproduction of the problem, please send it over. >> I’d love to look into this. When I pass paths with ~ to spark-ec2 on my >> system, it works fine. I’m using bash, but zsh handles tilde expansion the >> same as bash. >> >> Nick >> >> >> On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 3:30:08 PM Charles Feduke <charles.fed...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It was only hanging when I specified the path with ~ I never tried >>> relative. >>> >>> Hanging on the waiting for ssh to be ready on all hosts. I let it sit >>> for about 10 minutes then I found the StackOverflow answer that suggested >>> specifying an absolute path, cancelled, and re-run with --resume and the >>> absolute path and all slaves were up in a couple minutes. >>> >>> (I've stood up 4 integration clusters and 2 production clusters on EC2 >>> since with no problems.) >>> >>> On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 12:05:43 PM Nicholas Chammas < >>> nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Ey-chih, >>>> >>>> That makes more sense. This is a known issue that will be fixed as part >>>> of SPARK-5242 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5242>. >>>> >>>> Charles, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the info. In your case, when does spark-ec2 hang? Only when >>>> the specified path to the identity file doesn't exist? Or also when you >>>> specify the path as a relative path or with ~? >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 9:29:34 AM ey-chih chow <eyc...@hotmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> We found the problem and already fixed it. Basically, spark-ec2 >>>>> requires ec2 instances to have external ip addresses. You need to specify >>>>> this in the ASW console. >>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>> From: nicholas.cham...@gmail.com >>>>> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:19:21 +0000 >>>>> Subject: Re: spark 1.2 ec2 launch script hang >>>>> To: charles.fed...@gmail.com; pzybr...@gmail.com; eyc...@hotmail.com >>>>> CC: user@spark.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For those who found that absolute vs. relative path for the pem file >>>>> mattered, what OS and shell are you using? What version of Spark are you >>>>> using? >>>>> >>>>> ~/ vs. absolute path shouldn’t matter. Your shell will expand the ~/ >>>>> to the absolute path before sending it to spark-ec2. (i.e. tilde >>>>> expansion.) >>>>> >>>>> Absolute vs. relative path (e.g. ../../path/to/pem) also shouldn’t >>>>> matter, since we fixed that for Spark 1.2.0 >>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4137>. Maybe there’s >>>>> some case that we missed? >>>>> >>>>> Nick >>>>> >>>>> On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 10:10:29 AM Charles Feduke < >>>>> charles.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Absolute path means no ~ and also verify that you have the path to the >>>>> file correct. For some reason the Python code does not validate that the >>>>> file exists and will hang (this is the same reason why ~ hangs). >>>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:08 PM Pete Zybrick <pzybr...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Try using an absolute path to the pem file >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:57 PM, ey-chih chow <eyc...@hotmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > Hi, >>>>> > >>>>> > I used the spark-ec2 script of spark 1.2 to launch a cluster. I have >>>>> > modified the script according to >>>>> > >>>>> > https://github.com/grzegorz-dubicki/spark/commit/5dd8458d2ab >>>>> 9753aae939b3bb33be953e2c13a70 >>>>> > >>>>> > But the script was still hung at the following message: >>>>> > >>>>> > Waiting for cluster to enter 'ssh-ready' >>>>> > state............................................. >>>>> > >>>>> > Any additional thing I should do to make it succeed? 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