building a bootstrap image requires a reliable connection to the repository

[Fedor Tarasenko]

It's not possible to create ubuntu bootstrap image if apt-get does not retrieve package for the first time.
apt-get does not reconnect if connection fails, so log file is full of missed packages (different in each run).

I: Retrieving busybox-initramfs 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1
W: Couldn't download package busybox-initramfs (ver 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1 arch amd64)

As a workaround, proxy server & http_proxy env variable can be used.

[Alexei Sheplyakov (asheplyakov)]

> It's not possible to create ubuntu bootstrap image if apt-get does not retrieve package for the first time.

There's no reliable way to recover from a partial install. If something has failed it's safer (and in fact faster) to rebuild the image.

[Alexei Sheplyakov (asheplyakov)]

It's the Internet connection which should be fixed, not the image builder script.

[Alexander Gordeev (a-gordeev)]

> There's no reliable way to recover from a partial install. If something has failed it's safer (and in fact faster) to rebuild the image.

both debootstrap and apt-get are downloading packages at first to process/install them later.

both of them store downloaded files in cache directory. So, it's quite easy and convenient to perform retry.

if we want to retry only on downloading, then both of them are capable of performing downloading only via `--download-only` option.

[Fedor Tarasenko (ftarasenko)]

Can you force apt-get to retry download for 2-3 times?
There is no problem with internet connection, it's possible that corporate firewall prohibits too many opened connections per second.

[Alexander Gordeev (a-gordeev)]

Fedor, sounds like you've run into the entirely another issue, please take a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1470468

[Fedor Tarasenko (ftarasenko)]

Alexander, the download speed is very fast (about 5 mins for all packages). So It does not look like another issue.
In my case, download misses 5-6 packages and script refuses to continue. Cause package cache is cleared, next run misses another 5-6 packages and so on until I tried to use proxy server.

[Alexander Gordeev (a-gordeev)]

Ok. So, the issue is still valid. However, it is not high priority. Lowering to medium then.

[Alexei Sheplyakov (asheplyakov)]

I'm in ceph team since September 2015, and this "bug" (or rather a strange feature request) has nothing to do with ceph

[Alexander Gordeev (a-gordeev)]

at the moment, for 8.0 ubuntu bootstrap image will be built by fuel-agent.

fuel-agent already has got retrying routine for handling such things.

according to the code, default value is 10 attempts
https://github.com/openstack/fuel-agent/blob/72f6c0ed2603596f414d30940b320f3d4b001017/fuel_agent/manager.py#L112-L116

seems that bug has been resolved.

[Dmitry Kalashnik (dkalashnik)]

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