More problems with ubuntu-core generated using ubuntu-image

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Mike,

Sorry for being a bit slow to respond here. We're working hard precisely on
the freeze of the Ubuntu Core image, and some of the problems you mention
have been our focus.

The boot sequence is changing to be simpler and safer, the way cloud-init
is configured is also changing to be controllable from the gadget and
disabled by default, etc.

The freeze deadline is tomorrow, and we expect to have an image with all of
those problems sorted and ready for testing.



On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:31 AM, MikeB <mabnhdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I posted this over a week ago and received no responses.  I'd really like to get past this problem so that I no longer have to use ubuntu-device-flash to generate a working ubuntu-core.
>
>
> I'm trying to generate a custom Ubuntu-Core OS for a network switch
> whitebox from DNI. I'm building a custom kernel snap using the latest snapcraft, et. al. - I needed to patch a couple kernel files, but mostly the customization are config changes.  The snap was built with confinement:strict, grade:devel
>
> I'm using ubuntu-image (Version 0.5+mvo10 Rev 17)  to generate the image.
>
>
> I'm using the gadget from the latest rev of lp:~vorlon/snappy-hub/snappy-systems.
>
> The assertion file:
> type: model
> authority-id: TBD
> series: 16
> brand-id: TBD
> model: canonical-pc-amd64
> gadget: pc
> kernel: deltanetworks-l9032nxb-kernel
> architecture: amd64
> timestamp: 2016-09-19T8:30:00-04:00
> revision: 0
> body-length: 0
>
>
> The first problem is that firstboot setup fails every time.
>
> I see this message in the syslog...
>
> error: cannot create state: state "/var/lib/snapd/state.json" already exists
>
>
> The second problem is much more annoying - a very long bootup time.
>
> From 'Starting Initial cloud-init job (metadata service crawler)...' to
> getting a login prompt now takes about 260 seconds.  This happens on every
> reboot.
>
> About 60 seconds is spent in 'Started Update resolvconf for networkd DNS.'
>
> Another 80 seconds is spent  "Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-0
> 4-04/meta-data/instance-id'"
>
> Another 120 seconds is spent  "Calling 'http:///latest/meta-data/instance-id'"
> - that is the default gateway for the subnet, which, as far as I know, does
> not have an http server.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get back to reasonable boot times?
>
> Regards, Mike
>
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