Thanks Julian for giving us some insight into the cause of this issue! If you have some insight into the command sequence MAAS is running then I hope you can help identify a workaround to enable adding nodes or create a mini-Howto manually remove a partially added node (from Cobbler, dnsmasq, etc managed by MAAS).
> But the MAAS server has a 7 second timeout waiting for pserv/cobbler > operations. Can we change this timeout as a workaround for this issue? > Does re-adding the node work quicker the second time? How to do this if when the MAAS "Add Node" process is incomplete but did define a system in Cobbler so the same node cannot be re-added in MAAS web UI? In the couple of "timed out" failed adding of nodes that I've seen, the MAAS web UI doesn't allow re-adding or appear to have an option to re- try. Just naively re-entering the MAC address fails and I recall Cobbler logging "duplicate MAC address" or similar error after defining a duplicate incomplete system record (missing a mac-address field value). I've tried re-adding after finding the newly added node's name from the output of "cobbler system list" then remove it with "cobbler system remove --name=<NewNodeName>". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989355 Title: Unable to create Node: timed out To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/989355/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
