On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:10:01PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Timo,
>
> Timo Aaltonen [2018-02-15 16:50 +0200]:
> > On 14.02.2018 22:03, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am on bionic and managed to build bionic container for testing using:
> > >
> > > $ autopkgtest-build-lxd ubuntu-daily:bionic/amd64
> > >
> > > Note this uses Ubuntu Foundations provided container as the base,
> > > rather than the third-party image that you are using from "images"
> > > remote.
> > >
> > > Why are you using images: remote?
> >
> > Because that's what the manpage suggests :)
>
> Right, and quite deliberately. At least back in "my days", the ubuntu: and
> ubuntu-daily: images had a lot of fat in them which made them both
> unnecessarily slow (extra download time, requires more RAM/disk, etc.) and also
> undesirable for test correctness, as having all of the unnecessary bits
> preinstalled easily hides missing dependencies.
>
> The latter can be alleviated by purging stuff of course, and that's what
> happens for the cloud VM images in OpenStack:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/tree/setup-commands/setup-testbed#n242
>
> But this takes even more time, and so far just hasn't been necessary as the
> images: ones were just right - they contain exactly what a generic container
> image is supposed to contain and are pleasantly small and fast.
>
> > > Is the failure reproducible with ubuntu-daily:bionic?
> > >
> > > If you can build images with ubuntu-daily:bionic, then you need to
> > > contact and file an issue with images: remote provider.
> >
> > ubuntu-daily: works, images: fails for artful and bionic while xenial
> > works, and the image server is:
> >
> > https://images.linuxcontainers.org/
>
> These are being advertised and used a lot, so maybe Stephane's LXD team can
> help with fixing these? Them having no network at all sounds like a grave bug
> which should be fixed either way.
>
> That said, it could of course be that the setup script just needs some
> adjustments for the netplan changes:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/tree/setup-commands/setup-testbed
> As this doesn't know about netplan at all, just ifupdown.
>
> Martin
stgraber@castiana:~$ lxc launch images:ubuntu/bionic/amd64 bionic
Creating bionic
Starting bionic
stgraber@castiana:~$ lxc launch images:ubuntu/artful/amd64 artful
Creating artful
Starting artful
stgraber@castiana:~$ lxc list
+-------------+---------+--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS |
+-------------+---------+--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| artful | RUNNING | 10.204.119.187 (eth0) | 2001:470:b368:4242:216:3eff:fe27:799b (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0 |
+-------------+---------+--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| bionic | RUNNING | 10.204.119.248 (eth0) | 2001:470:b368:4242:216:3eff:fe8c:7741 (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0 |
+-------------+---------+--------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
And confirmed that networking inside both of them works fine here.
I wonder if it's a netplan vs ifupdown thing hitting autopkgtest in this case?
--
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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