[BUG] Installing ubuntu-desktop with Packer breaks the VM #1612
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I got the same error message when Ubuntu 18.04 boot up in VNET that enable IPv6. |
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To narrow this report down even further, the Ubuntu package It's not clear to me if this is a bug with waagent, cloud-init, or should be resolved in ifupdown. The cause seems to be that I'll let package maintainers here or on cloud-init speculate what the best fix is, but as a user, I can say I dived really deep tracking this down and never would have guessed I suspect that if you install A potential fixAs part of your image clean up steps, you could uninstall ...
{
"type": "shell",
"execute_command": "chmod +x {{ .Path }}; {{ .Vars }} sudo {{ .Path }}",
"inline": [
"apt-get remove -yq ifupdown",
"apt-get autoremove -yq"
]
},
...Packer configThis config will reproduce the bug if you add the necessary environment variables for your subscription. The resulting image cannot be used to boot an image -- the NIC will never come. {
"variables": {
"instance_type": "Standard_B1ms",
"resource_group": "{{ env `AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP` }}",
"location": "{{ env `AZURE_LOCATION` }}",
"client_id": "{{ env `ARM_CLIENT_ID` }}",
"client_secret": "{{ env `ARM_CLIENT_SECRET` }}",
"subscription_id": "{{ env `ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID` }}",
"tenant_id": "{{ env `ARM_TENANT_ID` }}"
},
"builders": [
{
"type": "azure-arm",
"client_id": "{{ user `client_id` }}",
"client_secret": "{{ user `client_secret` }}",
"subscription_id": "{{ user `subscription_id` }}",
"tenant_id": "{{ user `tenant_id` }}",
"os_type": "Linux",
"os_disk_size_gb": 80,
"image_publisher": "Canonical",
"image_offer": "UbuntuServer",
"image_sku": "18.04-LTS",
"managed_image_name": "test-failure-{{ isotime \"2006-01-02-1504\" }}",
"managed_image_resource_group_name": "{{ user `resource_group` }}",
"location": "West US 2",
"vm_size": "{{ user `instance_type` }}"
}
],
"provisioners": [
{
"type": "shell",
"execute_command": "chmod +x {{ .Path }}; {{ .Vars }} sudo {{ .Path }}",
"inline": [
"set -x",
"/usr/bin/cloud-init status --wait",
"systemctl stop apt-daily.timer",
"systemctl stop apt-daily.service",
"systemctl stop apt-daily-upgrade.timer",
"systemctl stop apt-daily-upgrade.service",
"systemctl stop unattended-upgrades.service",
"apt-get install -yq ifupdown",
"/usr/sbin/waagent -force -deprovision+user && export HISTSIZE=0 && sync"
]
}
]
} |
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Update: I hit an identical bug on AWS yesterday as well, so seems like this is a conflict between I'll open an issue against |
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Tracked in https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1867029 and seems to be fixed. |
Describe the bug
Installing ubuntu-desktop on 18.04 LTS with Packer, creates a broken image that is not able to boot. I'm not sure this is an issue with WALinuxAgent / Cloud-Init / Azure.
It seems like network interface
eth0is unable to go UP, and everything else breaks.Packer file:
Distro and WALinuxAgent details (please complete the following information):
Additional context
Booting a VM created from that image:
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