When MAAS has too many leases, and lease parsing fails, MAAS fails to auto-map NIC with network

[Larry Michel]

We started seeing system which after re-commissioning stopped showing IP addresses on the MAAS UI. Deployment would then work, but no static IP would be displayed. System could be sshed into using dynamic IP allocated (fetched from dhcp lease file), but there was no DHCP entry setup, so juju bootstrap which uses DNS to connect to bootstrap node would fail.

From IRC conversation bout this issue, roaksoax said: "During commissioning, we have 4 NIC's+ which increments the number of leases that stay on the leases file. The parser fails to parse when the lease file is too big".

[Larry Michel (lmic)]

These are the log files.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

This is another reason to get rid of lease parsing. As discussed in another bug, we can make commissioning nodes send the relevent interface info back in the commissioning results.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

With 1.7RC1 this problem will be alleviated due to Gavin's work compressing the leases file; it should scale up to 4000 leases. However, Julian is right that lease parsing should probably go away -- we should start a design doc to discuss that.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Larry, or anyone else affected,

Accepted maas into utopic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/1.7.5+bzr3369-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

This issue has been verified to work both on upgrade and fresh install, and has been QA'd. Marking verification-done.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package maas - 1.7.6+bzr3376-0ubuntu2~14.04.1

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maas (1.7.6+bzr3376-0ubuntu2~14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: Make maas-dns a Dependy of maas-region-controller.
  * debian/maas-region-controller.postinst: Ensure DNS config migration is
    always run. (LP: #1413388)

 -- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:47:40 -0400