manual provider hangs indefinitely on interrupted install

[Peter Sabaini]

I've had `juju add-machine ssh:x.x.x.x` hang indefinitely. This turned out to be due to an interrupted apt pkg install

Steps to reproduce:

On machine x.x.x.x bring the apt package system into an inconsistent state by interrupting a configuration step so that it needs to be repaired with `dpkg --configure -a`

Then proceed to add it to your model: `juju add-machine ssh:x.x.x.x`

Observed behaviour:

add-machine will hang

on x.x.x.x you can see a bash pipeline looping with "sleep 10" in between

Expected behaviour:

In case of a fault `juju add-machine` should return an error (possibly after a timeout) with some details on what went wrong

Cheers,
peter.

[Pen Gale (pengale)]

I agree that we should handle this with a timeout and an informative error message, rather than hanging forever.

I believe this ticket will be addressed when add-machine for manual machines has a sensible timeout, and better error messaging.

Added "bitesize" tag, as this is an excellent candidate for a new developer task or community contribution :-)

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

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