Comment 5 for bug 1952470

regiond.log shows this traceback:

2021-11-26 17:14:20 maasserver.websockets.protocol: [critical] Error on request (5028) machine.action: Failed to retrieve curtin config: %d format: a number is required, not NoneType

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/provisioningserver/utils/twisted.py", line 842, in worker
    return target()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/_threads/_threadworker.py", line 46, in work
    task()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/_threads/_team.py", line 190, in doWork
    task()
--- <exception caught here> ---
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py", line 246, in inContext
    result = inContext.theWork()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py", line 262, in <lambda>
    inContext.theWork = lambda: context.call(ctx, func, *args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line 118, in callWithContext
    return self.currentContext().callWithContext(ctx, func, *args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twisted/python/context.py", line 81, in callWithContext
    return func(*args,**kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/provisioningserver/utils/twisted.py", line 875, in callInContext
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/provisioningserver/utils/twisted.py", line 232, in wrapper
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/maasserver/utils/orm.py", line 754, in call_within_transaction
    return func_outside_txn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/maasserver/utils/orm.py", line 561, in retrier
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/contextlib.py", line 30, in inner
    return func(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/maasserver/websockets/handlers/machine.py", line 785, in action
    return action.execute(**extra_params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/maasserver/node_action.py", line 353, in execute
    "Failed to retrieve curtin config: %s" % e)