Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud- init/issues/3641
** Bug watch added: github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues #3641 https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3641 ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Triaged => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1870310 Title: Explicit addition of a user's primary_group breaks the user creation Status in cloud-init: Expired Bug description: $ multipass launch --cloud-init - <<EOF users: - name: $USER groups: [ubuntu] ssh_authorized_keys: - $( cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ) EOF # times out due to missing `ubuntu` user $ multipass ls # find the IP $ ssh $IP # /var/log/cloud-init.log 2020-04-02 09:40:27,551 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Adding user ubuntu 2020-04-02 09:40:27,551 - util.py[DEBUG]: Running hidden command to protect sensitive input/output logstring: ['useradd', 'ubuntu', '--comment', 'Ubuntu', '--groups', 'adm,audio,cdrom,dialout,dip,floppy,lxd,netdev,plugdev,sudo,video', '--shell', '/bin/bash', '-m'] 2020-04-02 09:40:27,555 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed to create user ubuntu 2020-04-02 09:40:27,556 - util.py[DEBUG]: Failed to create user ubuntu Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py", line 481, in add_user util.subp(useradd_cmd, logstring=log_useradd_cmd) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 2102, in subp cmd=args) cloudinit.util.ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected error while running command. Command: ['useradd', 'ubuntu', '--comment', 'Ubuntu', '--groups', 'adm,audio,cdrom,dialout,dip,floppy,lxd,netdev,plugdev,sudo,video', '--shell', '/bin/bash', '-m'] Exit code: 9 Reason: - Stdout: Stderr: useradd: group ubuntu exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g. 2020-04-02 09:40:27,560 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: init-network/config-users-groups: FAIL: running config-users-groups with frequency once-per-instance It looks as if a user's primary_group is created prior to that user being created, the user addition fails. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1870310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
