Unable to login to ubuntu vm created by DIB

[Esha Seth]

I am using following command to generate a RAW image filefor Ubuntu xenial via DIB:

/dib/env/bin$ sudo DIB_RELEASE=xenial DIB_DEV_USER_USERNAME=ubuntu DIB_DEV_USER_PASSWORD=passw0rd ./disk-image-create -a ppc64el -o ubuntu-xenial-vm5 -t raw -x vm ubuntu devuser openssh-server --logfile xenial.txt

Although the image gets created as.raw and has a .d with the element values etc, but I am unable to login to the vm deployed using this image by nova boot and passing the network ip address etc.

I copy the .raw image to a disk volume, import it in myprivate cloud env on openstack, in glance then create image with it and deploy the vm with this image specifying ip address , network etc.

However when I try to ssh or VNC access this vm then it does not accept ubuntu/passw0rd as valid creds. Hence I am unable to get inside the vm and do further processing.

I have tried the DIB_DEV_USER_PWDLESS_SUDO=1 also in above command still ubuntu login/password appears and does not allow to proceed.

Attaching the log file

[Ian Wienand (iwienand)]

It looks to me that devuser has run correctly

---
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ export DIB_DEV_USER_USERNAME=ubuntu
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ DIB_DEV_USER_USERNAME=ubuntu
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ export DIB_DEV_USER_SHELL=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ DIB_DEV_USER_SHELL=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ export DIB_DEV_USER_PWDLESS_SUDO=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ DIB_DEV_USER_PWDLESS_SUDO=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ export DIB_DEV_USER_AUTHORIZED_KEYS=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ DIB_DEV_USER_AUTHORIZED_KEYS=
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ export DIB_DEV_USER_PASSWORD=passw0rd
2018-04-23 11:22:03.290 | ++ DIB_DEV_USER_PASSWORD=passw0rd

...

2018-04-23 11:22:01.807 | dib-run-parts Running /tmp/in_target.d/install.d/50-devuser
2018-04-23 11:22:01.808 | + set -eu
2018-04-23 11:22:01.808 | + set -o pipefail
2018-04-23 11:22:01.809 | + user_shell_args=
2018-04-23 11:22:01.809 | + '[' -n '' ']'
2018-04-23 11:22:01.809 | + useradd -m ubuntu
2018-04-23 11:22:01.815 | + set +x
2018-04-23 11:22:01.815 | Setting password.
2018-04-23 11:22:01.824 | + '[' -n '' ']'
2018-04-23 11:22:01.824 | + '[' -f /tmp/in_target.d/devuser-ssh-authorized-keys ']'
2018-04-23 11:22:01.824 | + chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /home/ubuntu
2018-04-23 11:22:01.829 | dib-run-parts 50-devuser completed
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The only thing I can think here is that when using the ubuntu cloud image, there is probably already an ubuntu user; possibly this only allows ssh based login?

I would try setting DIB_DEV_USER_USERNAME to "devuser" instead of ubuntu as a first guess

[Esha Seth (eshaseth)]

using 'devuser' as the username worked and I can login via VNC console
but openssh-server even though installed , ssh does not work to and from the vm.
Even ipv4 address is not assigned.

[Ian Wienand (iwienand)]

I think this probably highlights that we should check if there is already a user with the same name, because that is confusing. I'm not sure about the network setup

[Ian Wienand (iwienand)]

I'm actually not sure it is the username. Unfortunately my testing environment is broken (can't get to consoles in the vm's) so once that's fixed I'll try it again

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/563860

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Ian Wienand (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/563860