Google Cloud SDK Compute Instances list filtering problems

[Andrei Ciobanu]

Just a simple question.

Having the following Google Cloud SDK command:

gcloud compute instances list --format=flattened --filter='NOT ((tags.items:special-tag))'

... I encounter one strange situation.

When I run this on my local machine (Ubuntu 16.04), where I have installed the Google Cloud SDK, everything is going well.

The problem appears when I am trying to run this on an instance from Google Cloud which runs Ubuntu 16.04 as well.

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.list) Term expected [NOT *HERE*].

Seems that does not recognize the actual 'query' (tags.items:special-tag). What is strange (as you can see) is that on my local machine is working, but on Compute Engine instance not...

What is even more strange is that on a Debian instance running on Compute Engine it is working..

Does anyone can think about a good explanation?

P.S.: Python, gcloud versions are exactly the same. The configurations are exactly the same.

Thank you.

[Paul Nash]

Hi Andrei, I'm looking into this a bit. A couple initial questions:

1) Are you running the same shell on both machines? ('echo $0')

2) Could you let us know the output of "gcloud version" so we know which version we're looking at? (we know you said they're identical).

Thanks,

-P

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[Andrei Ciobanu]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your answer. I'm looking desperately for a solution.

1) yes, both machines are running '/bin/bash'. I looked also for not being another bash, because I know that Ubuntu used to make some symlinks from bash to dash or something like this, offering a lightweight implementation, and everything seems to be ok. Real bash is there.

2) The output is the following (for the both machines):

Google Cloud SDK 114.0.0

alpha 2016.06.09

beta 2016.06.09

bq 2.0.24

bq-nix 2.0.24

core 2016.06.09

core-nix 2016.06.09

gcloud 

gsutil 4.19

gsutil-nix 4.19

[Paul Nash]

Hi Andrei, here's the latest:

1) our engineers are investigating this, but meantime,

2) Another colleague tried to replicate your scenario, and experienced the following when he updated gcloud in his VM:

Update done!

To revert your SDK to the previously installed version, you may run:

  $ gcloud components update --version 111.0.0

WARNING: There are older versions of Google Cloud Platform tools on your system PATH.

Please remove the following to avoid accidentally invoking these old tools:

/usr/bin/git-credential-gcloud.sh

/usr/bin/bq

/usr/bin/gcloud

/usr/bin/gsutil

...and then he says:

So, it looks like this is a conflicting binary issue. I did the following:

$ sudo rm /usr/bin/gcloud

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud /usr/bin/

...and that seemed to get him past the issue. He says you might encounter some other hiccups around permissions, but he wasn't sure if those were related. This information is in the hands of our engineers, who will likely look at it more closely and will coordinate with Canonical if there's an issue in Ubuntu's config (but maybe not til morning).

Sorry for the trouble, I hope this helps.

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[Andrei Ciobanu]

Hi Paul,

Executing those command seems to fix the problem. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward for a fix version. Great job for all of you, guys ;)

Thank you,

Andrei

On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 9:09:17 PM UTC+3, Andrei Ciobanu wrote: