I've installed Nova on a x86_64 platform from the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Linux distribution. Then, I've downloaded and installed the testing image ubuntu1010-UEC-local-user-image.tar.gz as explained in the "Compute Administration Manual", chapter 7.1.
The command "uec-publish-tarball /data/images/ubuntu1010-UEC-localuser-image.tar.gz dub-bucket x86_64" was completed with success but during this job, in another window, I saw the following processes:
30778 : sshd: root@pts/0
|_ 30808 : -bash
|_ 31146 : /bin/sh /usr/bin/uec-publish-tarball /data/images/ubuntu1010-UEC-localuser-image.tar.gz dub-bucket x86_64
|_ 31183 : /bin/bash /usr/bin/uec-publish-image --type image i386 maverick-server-uec-amd64.img dub-bucket --kernel aki-26ae5bb4 --ramdisk none
|_ 31197 : /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/euca-bundle-image --destination /tmp/uec-publish-image.GCofJz --arch i386 --image /tmp/uec-publish-image.GCofJz/.rename.3EovVO/maverick-server-uec-amd64.img --kernel aki-26ae5bb4
|_ 31201 : tar ch -S -C /tmp/uec-publish-image.GCofJz/.rename.3EovVO maverick-server-uec-amd64.img
|_ 31202 : gzip
And finally, the euca-describe-images command reports:
IMAGE ami-01f00cca dub-bucket/maverick-server-uec-amd64.img.manifest.xml available public i386 machine aki-26ae5bb4
IMAGE aki-26ae5bb4 dub-bucket/maverick-server-uec-amd64-vmlinuz-virtual.manifest.xml available public i386 kernel
The bug is in the uec-publish-tarball command.
The arch option value must be "amd64" instead of "x86_64". This is inconsistent with the OpenStack documentation which indicates "x86_64" and is also inconsistent with the other uec-publish-image command into which the arch option may be "i386" or "x86_64" as reported by the help.