On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Fabiano Lucchese <fabiano.lucchese@hds.com> wrote:
I appreciate your effort to help me, but it looks like my AWS account has some serious hidden issues going on. I completely wiped out CloudMan/Galaxy instances from my EC2 environment as well as their volumes, and waited a couple of hours for the instances to disappear from the instances list. After that, I repeated the whole process twice, trying to create a Galaxy cluster with 10 and then 15 Gb of storage space, but the result was equally frustrating with some minor differences.
PS: Dannon, one thing that intrigues me is how the web form manages to find out the names of the previous clusters that I tried to instantiate. Where does it get this information from if all the respective instances have been terminated and wiped out?
Did you reuse the same cluster name for either of these? This would explain conflicting settings - there's more to a cluster than just the running instances and persistent volumes. That form retrieves those listings from the S3 buckets in your account. Each cluster has its own S3 bucket -- you can identify them with the yourCluster.clusterName files in the listing. These contain lots of information about your galaxy clusters (references to volumes, universe settings, etc.), and if you're attempting to eliminate a cluster completely (you never want to restart it and don't want *anything* preserved), you should delete the buckets referring to them as well. When you ask Cloudman to terminate and remove a cluster permanently, it removes all of this for you, and I'd recommend always using the interface to do this and not doing it manually. Definitely let me know what else I can do to help. If you have a running instance you'd like for me to look at directly I'd be happy to do so -- maybe this is indeed some weird issue that we can work around better.