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Thank you. ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1962343 Title: VMs hardening with the noexec option in /tmp and /var/tmp which is causing issues to get an IP with cloud-init , reason why the VM takes like 25 min to start Status in cloud-init: Fix Released Bug description: Hardening Azure VM - Ubuntu 18.04 with the noexec option in /tmp and /var/tmp is causing issues with the dhclient to get an IP with cloud- init , reason why the VM takes like 25 min to start Hardening: root@ubu1804repro:~# cat /etc/fstab # CLOUD_IMG: This file was created/modified by the Cloud Image build process UUID=5b1ab5d4-8b76-46c5-928f-8db42fbe3af6 / ext4 defaults,discard 0 1 UUID=91B6-4BB7 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 UUID="fadc7d49-1a88-4eed-8964-94b78ee7dfa6" /tmp ext4 rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,discard 0 0 /tmp /var/tmp none rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,bind 0 0 /dev/disk/cloud/azure_resource-part1 /mnt auto defaults,nofail,x-systemd.requires=cloud-init.service,comment=cloudconfig 0 2 Error: [ OK ] Reached target System Time Synchronized. [ OK ] Started AppArmor initialization. Starting Load AppArmor profiles managed internally by snapd... Starting Initial cloud-init job (pre-networking)... [ 8.062136] sh[795]: + [ -e /var/lib/cloud/instance/obj.pkl ] [ OK ] [ 8.097225] sh[795]: + echo cleaning persistent cloud-init object Started Load AppArmor profiles managed internally by snapd. [ 8.100207] sh[795]: cleaning persistent cloud-init object [ 8.106214] sh[795]: + rm /var/lib/cloud/instance/obj.pkl [ 8.112706] sh[795]: + exit 0 [ 14.435302] cloud-init[813]: Cloud-init v. 21.4-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 running 'init-local' at Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:18:50 +0000. Up 8.71 seconds. [ 14.445225] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:18:56,105 - dhcp.py[WARNING]: dhclient did not produce expected files: dhcp.leases, dhclient.pid [ 14.453129] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:18:56,107 - azure.py[WARNING]: exception while getting metadata: [ 14.460876] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:18:56,109 - azure.py[ERROR]: Could not crawl Azure metadata: [ 19.626878] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:19:01,297 - dhcp.py[WARNING]: dhclient did not produce expected files: dhcp.leases, dhclient.pid [ 19.664700] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:19:01,333 - azure.py[ERROR]: Failed to read /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases' [ 19.674221] cloud-init[813]: 2022-02-25 17:19:01,333 - azure.py[WARNING]: No lease found; using default endpoint: a8:3f:81:10 Cloud-Init Version : root@ubu1804repro:~# cloud-init --version /usr/bin/cloud-init 21.4-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 root@ubu1804repro:~# OS version: root@ubu1804repro:~# uname -a Linux ubu1804repro 5.4.0-1069-azure #72~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 7 11:12:24 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@ubu1804repro:~# root@ubu1804repro:~# cat /etc/*rele* DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic root@ubu1804repro:~# Workaround : Remove the noexec option from /tmp and /tmp/var entries in /etc/fstab. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1962343/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp