** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707222
Title: usage of /tmp during boot is not safe due to systemd-tmpfiles-clean Status in cloud-init: Fix Committed Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Earlier this week on Zesty on Azure I saw a cloud-init failure in its 'mount_cb' function. That function esentially does: a.) make a tmp directory for a mount point b.) mount some filesystem to that mount point c.) call a function d.) unmount the directory What I recall was that access to a file inside the mount point failed during 'c'. This seems possible as systemd-tmpfiles-clean may be running at the same time as cloud-init (cloud-init.service in this example). It seems that this service basically inhibits *any* other service from using tmp files. It's ordering statements are only: After=local-fs.target time-sync.target Before=shutdown.target So while in most cases only services that run early in the boot process like cloud-init will be affected, any service could have its tmp files removed. this service could take quite a long time to run if /tmp/ had been filled with lots of files in the previous boot. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1707222/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp