Public bug reported: When cloud-init shows a warning with Z99-cloudinit-warnings.sh (such as on login after a ds-identify error), it suggests that you can:
Disable the warnings above by: touch /home/ubuntu/.cloud-warnings.skip or touch /var/lib/cloud/instance/warnings/.skip The second file (/var/lib/cloud/....) is not honored. The easiest recreate is: $ name="x1" $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:xenial $name $ sleep 10 $ lxc exec $name -- sh -c 'd=/var/lib/cloud/instance/warnings/; mkdir -p $d; echo "WARNING WARNING FOO" > "$d/warn-foo"' ## see the warning is there. $ lxc exec $name -- bash --login </dev/null WARNING WARNING FOO Disable the warnings above by: touch /root/.cloud-warnings.skip or touch /var/lib/cloud/instance/warnings/.skip mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device $ lxc exec $name -- touch /var/lib/cloud/instance/warnings/.skip ## This time you should not see it, but you will. $ lxc exec $name -- bash --login </dev/null WARNING WARNING FOO ... ** Affects: cloud-init Importance: Medium Assignee: Chris Brinker (chris-brinker) Status: Fix Committed ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: Confirmed ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Medium Status: Confirmed ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Medium Status: Confirmed ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Medium Status: Confirmed ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Medium Status: Confirmed ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: cloud-init Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-init Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Brinker (chris-brinker) ** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~chris-brinker/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/323406 ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Artful) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691551 Title: warnings are still printed after user touches file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1691551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs