Bug#979974: cloud-init wait an unnecessary timeout

[Noah Meyerhans]

Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed upstream

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 01:57:27PM +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> At boot cloud-init waits 120 seconds for an ephemeral disk, but some
> VM types doesn't have ephemeral storage at all, so this just blocks
> the boot for 120 seconds:
> 
> Jan 12 11:23:13 mcroce-buster cloud-init[506]: 2021-01-12 11:23:13,608
> - azure.py[WARNING]: ephemeral device '/dev/disk/cloud/azure_resource'
> did not appear after 120 seconds.
> 
> Please consider mounting the disk upon attach.

I believe that this was fixed upstream with
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/800, which was released
with cloud-init 21.2

So the fix should be available in unstable and testing at this time.  I
don't have the ability to launch an Azure VM to confirm this, so if
you're able to do so, that would be appreciated.  We can then consider
options for (old)stable branches.

noah

Bug#979974: cloud-init wait an unnecessary timeout

[Matteo Croce]

Package: cloud-init
Version: 20.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

At boot cloud-init waits 120 seconds for an ephemeral disk, but some
VM types doesn't have ephemeral storage at all, so this just blocks
the boot for 120 seconds:

Jan 12 11:23:13 mcroce-buster cloud-init[506]: 2021-01-12 11:23:13,608
- azure.py[WARNING]: ephemeral device '/dev/disk/cloud/azure_resource'
did not appear after 120 seconds.

Please consider mounting the disk upon attach.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cloud-init depends on:
ii  fdisk   2.36.1-4
ii  gdisk   1.0.5-1
ii  ifupdown0.8.36
ii  locales 2.31-9
ii  lsb-base11.1.0
ii  lsb-release 11.1.0
ii  net-tools   1.60+git20181103.0eebece-1
ii  procps  2:3.3.16-5
ii  python3 3.9.1-1
ii  python3-configobj   5.0.6-4
ii  python3-jinja2  2.11.2-1
ii  python3-jsonpatch   1.25-3
ii  python3-jsonschema  3.2.0-3
ii  python3-oauthlib3.1.0-2
ii  python3-requests2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii  python3-yaml5.3.1-3+b1
ii  util-linux  2.36.1-4

Versions of packages cloud-init recommends:
ii  cloud-guest-utils  0.31-2
pn  eatmydata  
ii  sudo   1.9.4p2-2

Versions of packages cloud-init suggests:
pn  btrfs-progs  
ii  e2fsprogs1.45.6-1
pn  xfsprogs 

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LC_COLLATE = "it_IT.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "it_IT.UTF-8",
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LANG = "C.UTF-8"
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