deploy --to [lxd|lxc]:N fails to validate if machine N exists

[Andreas Hasenack]

This correctly fails, because machine 1 does not exist:
andreas@nsn7:~$ juju deploy ubuntu ubuntu-to-machine --to 1
Added charm "cs:ubuntu-0" to the model.
Deploying charm "cs:ubuntu-0" with the default charm metadata series "xenial".
ERROR cannot deploy "ubuntu-to-machine" to machine 1: machine 1 not found

But this proceeds:
andreas@nsn7:~$ juju deploy ubuntu ubuntu-to-machine --to lxc:1
Added charm "cs:ubuntu-0" to the model.
Deploying charm "cs:ubuntu-0" with the default charm metadata series "xenial".
andreas@nsn7:~$

And gets stuck in "allocating".

provider is MAAS 1.9.1
juju is 2.0-beta5-xenial-amd64

Same with lxd:
andreas@nsn7:~$ juju deploy ubuntu another-ubuntu-to-lxd --to lxd:999
Added charm "cs:ubuntu-0" to the model.
Deploying charm "cs:ubuntu-0" with the default charm metadata series "xenial".
andreas@nsn7:~$

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Removing 2.1 milestone as we will not be addressing this issue in 2.1.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Validation if machine exist does happen but it could be done earlier in the process. I am lowering the Importance.

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

This bug has not been updated in 5 years, so we're marking it Expired. If you believe this is incorrect, please update the status.