Waiting for rack controller(s) to sync forever

[Joshua McClintock]

Reproduce:

1. Uploaded large image 4G+

Expected:

1. Image uploads successfully
2. syncs to rack controller(s)

Actual:

1. Image uploads successfully
2. syncs to rack controller(s)
3. GUI says 'Waiting for rack controller(s) to sync' forvever

The image did sync, but the GUI says it hasn't.

MaaS Version: 2.6.0 (7802-g59416a869-0ubuntu1~18.04.1)

My smaller custom images (ESX and RHEL) do sync just fine, it's my larger Windows images which are exhibiting this issue.

[Joshua McClintock (jmcclintock777)]

You may close this, the error happens when you upload an image with filetype 'ddgz' instead of 'ddtgz'. So the bug might be an input validation to see if the file type you provided is even valid.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

ddgz is actually a valid type. It is a gunzipped dd instead of a dd in a tarball gunzipped. Seems that the syncing code is getting confused with that type and not marking it as synced to the rack controller correctly.

[Michael Fischer (michaelandrewfischer)]

I am also experiencing a similar (if not the same) issue in maas 2.5

[Michael Fischer (michaelandrewfischer)]

I am still seeing this issue after upgrading to maas 2.6.0

* I run this command:
maas <user> boot-resources create name='windows/WS-2019' title='Windows Server 2019' architecture='amd64/generic' filetype='tgz' content@=win-image.img

* The command executes successfully after some time.

* The UI displays:
Waiting for rack controller(s) to sync

[Jeremy Mordkoff (jeremy-mordkoff)]

I am seeing this in a fresh install of maas 2.7 and the images downloaded from mass.io. I have 18.04/amd64 and centos/amd64 selected. I can see them download, but then the status in the GUI gets stuck on 'Waiting for rack controller(s) to sync'

The only thing slightly unusual is that I have IPv6 enabled.

 root@grunt27:~# snap list
 Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
 core18 20200124 1668 stable canonical✓ base
 maas 2.7.0-8234-g.de2727f6c 4951 2.7 canonical✓ -
 maas-cli 0.6.5 13 stable canonical✓ -
 snapd 2.43.3 6434 stable canonical✓ snapd

[Joshua McClintock (jmcclintock777)]

@Blake, RE Comment #2, what if the file type you specify (e.g. filetype='tgz') is different from the actual extension of your file (e.g. win-image.img)? Does that even matter?

[Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski)]

Is this still an issue on MAAS 3.2 or later?

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