Publish from VS2017 got stuck in Copying application to image store...

[hengyiliu]

VS2017 15.5.6
Azure Service Fabric on Linux: 6.1.183.1
Service Fabric SDK: 3.0.456.9494

I have a Azure Service Fabric cluster on Linux and a simple project created from VS template. When I publish from VS, it got stuck in "Copying application to image store..." for hours and won't complete:

2>Started executing script 'Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1'.
2>powershell -NonInteractive -NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command ". 'c:\test\SimpleSF\SimpleSF\Scripts\Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1' -ApplicationPackagePath 'c:\test\SimpleSF\SimpleSF\pkg\Debug' -PublishProfileFile 'c:\test\SimpleSF\SimpleSF\PublishProfiles\Cloud.xml' -DeployOnly:$false -ApplicationParameter:@{} -UnregisterUnusedApplicationVersionsAfterUpgrade $false -OverrideUpgradeBehavior 'None' -OverwriteBehavior 'SameAppTypeAndVersion' -SkipPackageValidation:$false -ErrorAction Stop"
2>Copying application to image store...

Service Fabric explorer page showed nothing deployed. I have also tried to re-create a new project and a new cluster from Azure Portal, and still got stuck in the same place. It was working fine a few days ago. Has anything changed recently?

[Sveer]

The same trouble on Windows cluster.
I try to add -ShowProgress parameter, but still nothing in build window.
Parameters for Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage:
Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage -ApplicationPackagePath C:\Projects\Sample\Sample\pkg\Debug -ImageStoreConnectionString fabric:ImageStore -ApplicationPackagePathInImageStore SampleType -TimeOutSec 6000 -CompressPackage -ShowProgress -ShowProgressIntervalMilliseconds 500

[juho-hanhimaki]

I think I've encountered this too when publishing from VS to Azure Windows cluster.

As workaround removing the following parameter from publish profile fixed the issue for me:

<CopyPackageParameters CompressPackage="true" />

[Sveer]

@juho-hanhimaki
Doesn't work for me. Totally remove -CompressPackage, but nothing changed. :(

[Sveer]

Additional information.
If I run scripts manually:
Connect-ServiceFabricCluster -X509Credential -ServerCertThumbprint...
Then:
Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage -ApplicationPackagePath C:\xxx\pkg\Debug -ImageStoreConnectionString fabric:ImageStore -ApplicationPackagePathInImageStore xxxType -TimeOutSec 6000 -ShowProgress -ShowProgressIntervalMilliseconds 2500
Process start and after 2 minutes all freezes on:

In case of compression:

[hengyiliu]

Looks like there's some problem in ImageStore service. For now, I'm using an external store as a workaround.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-deploy-remove-applications#register-the-application-package-copied-to-an-external-store

[Sveer]

@hengyiliu . Thanks, i'll check.
More diagnostic:. If I copy pkg folder by RDP to one of the servicefabric machine and run Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage - all is working. => Troubles with coping from remote machine to ImageStore...

[oanapl]

This seems similar to #813. We are currently investigating.

[cata]

Same problem here - it appears that attempting to uploading files larger than ~4MB hangs the transfer.

[oanapl]

I will close this issue as duplicate, and use #813 to track the fix.

As I answered in #813 , this is due to a configuration mismatch between standalone and Azure clusters for MaxMessageSize configuration, which is 10 MB for standalone and only 4 MB for the cluster. It happens when the local cluster is set up on the client, which changes the default configuration to 10 MB.

We will make a fix to ensure the 2 are in sync.

Meanwhile, the mitigation is to remove the local cluster, then upload to the Azure cluster succeeds.