Public bug reported: ====== [Bug Description] ======
C3-metal instances on Google Cloud fail to boot properly because cloud- init runs before the network interface (NIC) is up. As a result, cloud- init cannot detect any instance datasource. The issue appears to be caused by a race condition where no eligible network interfaces are present during the init-local stage when the GCE datasource attempts metadata discovery. ====== [Reproducer] ====== 1. Launch a c3-standard-192-metal machine on Google cloud. 2. Wait several minutes after the instance reaches running, then attempt to SSH into the instance You will see this error: Permission denied (publickey). If you access the machine through the Google cloud console, you will see the following cloud-init errors: * No instance datasource found! Likely bad things to come! * Getting data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceGCE.DataSourceGCELocal'> failed ====== [Environment Details] ====== * Cloud-init version: cloud-init 25.3~2g890873f5-0ubuntu2 * Operating System Distribution: Ubuntu Questing (25.10) and Ubuntu Noble (24.04) * Cloud provider, platform or installer type: Google * Kernel: linux-image-6.17.0-1008-gcp ====== [Suggested Fixes] ====== Include the `IDPF` driver as a built-in module in the noble and questing generic kernels. ====== [Related Links] ====== cloud-init bug: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/6737 ** Affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Leah Goldberg (goldberl) Status: New ** Summary changed: - Network interface not available early in boot on c3-metal, causing metadata detection failures + Delayed NIC initialization on c3-metal leads to first-boot metadata failures ** Changed in: linux-gcp (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Leah Goldberg (goldberl) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2144694 Title: Delayed NIC initialization on c3-metal leads to first-boot metadata failures To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-gcp/+bug/2144694/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
