Cloudstack cant find the distribution version

Cloudstack cant find the distribution version

wondering about cloud-setup-management error message Cloudstack cant find the distribution version when running cloud-setup-management on Debian Squeeze/Wheezy Linux?

Getting this error?

cloud-setup-management
Starting to configure CloudStack Management Server:
Can't find the distribution version
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cloud-setup-management", line 21, in 
syscfg = sysConfigFactory.getSysConfigFactory(glbEnv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cloudutils/syscfg.py", line 21, in getSysConfigFactory
return sysConfigServerFactory.getServer(glbEnv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cloudutils/syscfg.py", line 55, in getServer
return sysConfig()
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

I will explain the problem and solution shortly:

The Python Script for Cloudutils is checking which Distribution your Host is running on.
Because Cloudstack is officially supported only by Ubuntu Distro it will fail because it checks for existing file /etc/legal with entry “Ubuntu”.
So if the file doesn’t exist under /etc/ it will not find a match in Python Script and then fail with Error Message “Can’t find the distribution version”.

So if you are having Problems getting running cloud-setup-management on Debian Squeeze or Wheezy you can try this quick workaround by entering following:

echo "Ubuntu" > /etc/legal

Then rerun cloud-setup-management

I’ve also posted this workaround in the official cloudstack.org forum earlier before.