[Bug 1990585] Re: cloud-net fails when DHCP slow

[James Falcon]

Thanks for the additional info Greg. Based on what you've said, yes, it
sounds like this is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-
init/+bug/1990149 . Since we don't have logs though, I'm going to leave
this incomplete. #1990149 is on the docket to be fixed soon, so
hopefully at the point this will resolve itself without the need for
additional logs.

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Title:
  cloud-net fails when DHCP slow

Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  During a cloud-init autoinstall with Ubunutu Focal Server 20.04, the
  attempts to retrieve the meta-data file fail immediately with no
  timeout as indicated in the cloud-init.log.  According to the system
  logs, the network does not receive an IP address until after the
  attempt to retrieve the meta-data file.  The DHCP in the facility is
  known to be a little slow.

  It is possible to retrieve the file by switching to a second virtual
  terminal and downloading it with wget (after the failure of the cloud-
  init).  It appears that the url_helper.py function reporting the
  failure to retrieve the files does not wait for any timeout period
  when the network is not yet present.

  Possible solution?  Adding a check with a timeout of a few seconds for
  the network being available before moving to download the meta-data
  and user-data files.

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