autopkgtest-build-lxd failing with bionic

[Ryan Harper]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 06:48:31PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> > [ autopkgtest-devel, this is
> >   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-
> February/040138.html
> >   and thread FYI - Reply-To / Mail-Followup-To set to exclude
> >   ubuntu-devel from this subthread so reviews go to the right place ]
>
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:28:05AM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > […]
> > > 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?
>
> > I can build images: images(!) quite fine here, but when actually using
> > them I see these temporary resolution failures most of the time during
> > the initial apt-get update.
>
> > I tracked this down to a race condition - basically we try to do the
> > `apt-get update' before networking is fully up. (OK, I just saw Julian's
> > post which came in while I was writing this and says the same thing...)
>
> > There's a patch attached here which fixes the problem for me. I'm not
> > sure if there's a better way to do this - basically it starts
> > network-online.target and waits for it to become active, with a timeout.
> > Review appreciated.
>
> It's a bit odd to be "start"ing a target in this manner.  Is it even
> necessary to start the target, or would it be sufficient to just check
> is-active in a loop?
>
> In that case, I would suggest:
>
>             timeout=60
>             while ! lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- systemctl is-active
> network-online.target \
>                   && [ $timeout -ge 0 ]
>             do
>                 timeout=$((timeout - 1))
>                 sleep 1
>             done
>             [ $timeout -ge 0 ] || {
>                 echo "Timed out waiting for network to come up" >&2
>                 exit 1
>             }
>

Or, invoke wait-online directly:

 /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online

lxc launch ubuntu-daily:bionic b3 &&
  sleep 0.2 &&
  lxc exec b3 -- /bin/bash -c 'sleep 2; echo "waiting on network";
/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online &&  apt update'

systemd-networkd-wait-online isn't happy to start really early; it doesn't
attempt to reconnect to dbus if you run it before it's up
so that's the sleep 2 in there.

networkd is enabled only on artful and newer, so this won't help w.r.t
xenial and older.

Also, networkd comes up just as fast as networking in xenial  *if* you
don't have IPV6 and accept-ra enabled.
networkd spends approx 10 seconds waiting for a RA solicitation on my
Xenial machine;

If I disable dhcpv6 and accept-ra is false, then we do a v4 dhcp in less
than 2 seconds.

# cat /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml
# This file is generated from information provided by
# the datasource.  Changes to it will not persist across an instance.
# To disable cloud-init's network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
network:
    version: 2
    ethernets:
        eth0:
            dhcp4: true
            dhcp6: false
            accept-ra: off

root at b1:~# systemd-analyze blame
           725ms systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

With RA enabled (the default in networkd)

root at b1:~# systemd-analyze blame
         13.141s systemd-networkd-wait-online.service



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