[1.9.1] Failure to get DHCP address during curtin install of IBM S822LC 8335-GTA

[Larry Michel]

While installing system I ran into:

[ 278.524290] tg3 0004:01:00.0 eth0: Link is down
[ 282.748081] tg3 0004:01:00.0 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
[ 282.748275] tg3 0004:01:00.0 eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 282.748345] tg3 0004:01:00.0 eth0: EEE is disabled
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 100 secs - giving up
/scripts/local-top/iscsi: .: line 506: can't open '/run/net-eth0.conf'
done.
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
IP-Config: no response after 2 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 3 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 4 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 6 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 9 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 16 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 25 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 36 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 64 secs - giving up
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 98:be:94:01:0f:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei hostname entei IP-Config: no response after 100 secs - giving up
/scripts/local-top/iscsi: .: line 506: can't open '/run/net-eth0.conf'
done.
mdadm: CREATE user root not found
mdadm: CREATE group disk not found

dpkg -l '*maas*'|cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================================-================================-============-===============================================================================
ii maas 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server all-in-one metapackage
ii maas-cli 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS command line API tool
ii maas-cluster-controller 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server cluster controller
ii maas-common 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server common files
ii maas-dhcp 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS DHCP server
ii maas-dns 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS DNS server
ii maas-proxy 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS Caching Proxy
ii maas-region-controller 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server complete region controller
ii maas-region-controller-min 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS Server minimum region controller
ii python-django-maas 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server Django web framework
ii python-maas-client 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS python API client
ii python-maas-provisioningserver 1.9.1+bzr4543-0ubuntu1~trusty1 all MAAS server provisioning libraries

Please refer to logs for bug 1558747 for maas logs for this.

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Hi Larry,

Can you attach the curtin configuration from maas?

maas <maasuser> node get-curtin-config <system id>

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