Selfbuild AWX does not Start, daphne has Missing or incorrect metadata for Tower version

[FloThinksPi]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

• Installer

SUMMARY

When Building AWX Tag 1.0.2 the Build produces a awx-0.0.0.tar.gz instead of one with a version number. So one have to do

cp awx/dist/awx-0.0.0.tar.gz awx/dist/awx-1.0.2.1.tar.gz

and rerun the playbook.

The Container then start and are listening to port 80. Howerver the webserver only responds with a internal server error.

In the Logs there is the cause:

2018-02-02 15:11:58,833 ERROR    Missing or incorrect metadata for Tower version.  Ensure Tower was installed using the setup playbook.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin/daphne", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(CommandLineInterface.entrypoint())
  File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daphne/cli.py", line 144, in entrypoint
    cls().run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daphne/cli.py", line 174, in run
    channel_layer = importlib.import_module(module_path)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/asgi.py", line 31, in <module>
    raise Exception("Missing or incorrect metadata for Tower version.  Ensure Tower was installed using the setup playbook.")
Exception: Missing or incorrect metadata for Tower version.  Ensure Tower was installed using the setup playbook.
2018-02-02 15:11:58,876 INFO exited: daphne (exit status 1; not expected)

Which leads to a always restarting daphne.
So how is the version information set in AWX. Did i miss something.
The Docu only tells to execute the playbook.

ENVIRONMENT

AWX version: 1.0.2
AWX install method: build without docker-compose
Ansible version: 2.4
Operating System: RHEL 7.4

[FloThinksPi]

This also happened with 1.0.3.
i found a file called VERSION in the root of the repo after building both versions. However the file was always empty.

[FloThinksPi]

Ok this is because RHEL7 uses Git 1.8.3. I compiled my own git 2.16.x and it works now.

[geerlingguy]

Saw the same issue here: geerlingguy/awx-container#28

[FloThinksPi]

I got behind my error here. I included the awx repo as submodule in my deployment wrapper. However the awx folder gets included in the sdist builder image. But when using a submodule, the .git folder is in the main repo, not in the submodule folder. this resultet in the sdist container saying, /awx was not a git repo and failing to determen the awx version via git commits. so i cahanged my setup so a script clones the repo manually instead of including it as submodule