UTAH vm provisionings go on a loop on saucy hosts

[Para Siva]

On saucy hosts with new utah installations (0.14ubuntu1-saucy1) the VM installations as part of run-utah-tests keep going on a loop and does not go into booting.

This happened when I installed
1. a fresh saucy host and then
2. Install libvirt and setup qemu-kvm
3. Installed latest utah on it and then when I run
4. sudo -u utah -i run_utah_tests.py -i /path/to/saucy-server-amd64.iso -p lp:ubuntu-test-cases/server/preseeds/mail-server.preseed lp:ubuntu-test-cases/server/runlists/mail-server.run -x /etc/utah/bridged-network-vm.xml

Not exactly sure if this is the cause, but I can only see the following on saucy hosts (failing ones) and not on raring where the issue can not be seen.
2013-07-09 12:17:19,193 cleanup WARNING: Exception while running cleanup function: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
2013-07-09 12:17:19,197 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/lib/utah/vm/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64/disk0.qcow2'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,374 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/initrd.gz'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,375 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/saucy-server-amd64.iso'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,375 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/kernel'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,397 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/initrd.gz'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,397 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/saucy-server-amd64.iso'
2013-07-09 12:17:19,397 cleanup WARNING: OSError when changing directory permissions: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/utah-3-saucy-server-amd64_7A9aHm/kernel'

I'll attach the logs.

[Para Siva (psivaa)]

This is not seen anynore, marking this incomplete

[Para Siva (psivaa)]

Reopening this because it is reproducible in a trusty host.

[Andy Doan (doanac)]

psivaa - I appended this line to my preseed and it seems to work. Can you try appending this to your preseed and let me know if solves your issue:

d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true

[Para Siva (psivaa)]

That solved the issue. Running after editing /etc/utah/default-preseed.cfg to see if the upgrade jobs succeed as well.

[Andy Doan (doanac)]

That's great. We still have a bug somewhere I need to try and understand. Max added some context:

In utah/provisioning/vm.py, we do this:
xmlt.find('on_reboot').text = 'destroy'
That sets the on_reboot element of the KVM XML definition to destroy so a reboot will trigger a shutdown instead.

On line 452, after the VM is installed, we set it back to restart:
xml.find('on_reboot').text = 'restart'

[Andy Doan (doanac)]

I think I've released a fix for this:
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~utah/utah/dev/revision/1046