break ordering cycle starting with sysinit.target/start

[Carlos F.]

Dmesg reports:

[ 3.665652] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found ordering cycle on cloud-init.service/start
[ 3.667504] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on systemd-networkd-wait-online.service/start
[ 3.669684] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on systemd-networkd.service/start
[ 3.671600] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on network-pre.target/start
[ 3.673488] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on ufw.service/start
[ 3.675267] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on ipset-init.service/start
[ 3.677165] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on basic.target/start
[ 3.678951] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on sockets.target/start
[ 3.680684] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on cloud-init-hotplugd.socket/start
[ 3.682663] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start
[ 3.684421] systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Job cloud-init.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with sysinit.target/start

Is the Before=sysinit.target needed in cloud-init.service file?

[Brett Holman (holmanb)]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you for reporting this error. We will need more information to triage this problem.

Which distro, image, and platform are you running cloud-init on?

Please run `sudo cloud-init collect-logs` and upload the tarball here.

[Carlos F. (acsfer)]

Hi Brett,

this happens on all my (cloud, KVM based) instances of Ubuntu 22.04.

Tarball here attached. Line 739 of dmesg file is what i'm talking about.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/4041