quantum-server upstart script fails to start

Hello Emilien, can you attach /var/log/upstart/quantum.log if it exists (or let us know if it doesn't)

root@precise:~# more /var/log/upstart/quantum-server.log
start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--config-file'
Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.
start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--config-file'

root@precise:~# more /var/log/upstart/quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent.log
start-stop-daemon: unable to start /usr/bin/quantum-openvswitch-agent (Permissio
n denied)
start-stop-daemon: unable to start /usr/bin/quantum-openvswitch-agent (Permissio
n denied)

Thanks Emilien, this looks like a fairly recent change in the PPA packaging:

exec start-stop-daemon --start --chuid quantum --exec /usr/sbin/quantum-server --config-file /etc/quantum/quantum.conf --log-file /var/log/quantum/server.log

I believe that needs to be

exec start-stop-daemon --start --chuid quantum --exec /usr/sbin/quantum-server -- --config-file /etc/quantum/quantum.conf --log-file /var/log/quantum/server.log

Its not at all clear how that got into the PPA, as the Vcs-Bzr tree here does not show it:
lp:~ubuntu-server-dev/quantum/folsom

I'm assigning this to Chuck Short as the last to touch this. To be clear, this is *not* a bug in the official quantal packages, but rather a problem with packags uploaded to the testing PPA by the openstack-ubuntu-testing-bot

This bug was fixed in the package quantum - 2012.2~rc1-0ubuntu1

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quantum (2012.2~rc1-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Adam Gandelman ]
  * debain/*.postrm: Fix argument-less calls to update-rc.d, redirect
    to /dev/null. (LP: #1047560)
  * debian/quantum-server.upstart: Invoke start-stop-daemon properly.
    (LP: #1047404)
  * debain/*.postrm, *.upstart: Ensure files are named for corresponding
    agent package, not plugin package.
  * debian/control:
    - Group agents with plugins.
    - Fix some copy/paste mistakes.
    - Set dependencies between agents and corresponding plugins.
    - Recommend quantum-plugin-openvswitch for quantum-server.
    - Require the same version of quantum-common and python-quantum.
    - Add quantum-netns-cleanup utility to quantum-common.
  * debian/patches/fix-quantum-configuration.patch: Use correct database
    for linuxbridge plugin, use OVS plugin by default, call quantum-rootwrap
    correctly. (LP: #1048668)
  * Fix all use of /usr/sbin, things should go in /usr/bin.
  * Remove dhcp and l3 plugins, they are not actually plugins.
  * Rename packages quantum-plugin-{l3, dhcp}-agent to
    quantum-{l3, dhcp}-agent.
  * debain/quantum-*-agent.upstart: Specify config files as a
    parameter to --config-file, specify log files for all.
  * debian/*.logrotate: Add logrotate configs for server and agents.
  * Install quantum_sudoers with quantum-common, not quantum-server.
  * Install rootwrap filters only with the packages that require them.
  * debian/*-agent.upstart: Specify --config-file=/etc/quantum/quantum.conf
    in addition to plugin-specific config. Specify log files for all agents.
  * Allow group 'adm' read access to /var/log/quantum.
  * debian/quantum-server.postinst: Drop, all has been moved to quantum-common.
  * Add packaging for quantum-plugin-nec.

  [ Chuck Short ]
  * New usptream release.
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:41:20 -0500