Syslog error /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR

[Reynaldo Abimael Aceves Chamosa]

For Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 I could see the following error in syslog when I create an instance in GCP GCE, this is not affecting production but should be fixed to avoid confusion.

root@instance-1:~# grep Failed /var/log/syslog
Jun 28 20:00:49 instance-1 systemd-udevd[224]: sda: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/virtio0/host0/target0:0:1/0:0:1:0/block/sda/queue/scheduler}, ignoring: Invalid argument
Jun 28 20:00:49 instance-1 systemd-udevd[490]: sda: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/virtio0/host0/target0:0:1/0:0:1:0/block/sda/queue/scheduler}, ignoring: Invalid argument
Jun 28 20:00:49 instance-1 systemd-udevd[500]: sda: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/virtio0/host0/target0:0:1/0:0:1:0/block/sda/queue/scheduler}, ignoring: Invalid argument

root@instance-1:~# ls -li /lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules
73450 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Jul 29 2021 /lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules
73450 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Jul 29 2021 /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules

root@instance-1:~# dpkg -S 99-gce.rules
google-compute-engine: /lib/udev/rules.d/99-gce.rules

root@instance-1:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release: 22.04

root@instance-1:~# apt-cache policy google-compute-engine
google-compute-engine:
  Installed: 20211028.00-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 20211028.00-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 20211028.00-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us-central1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This may be related but do not know why it was not fixed for later releases.
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/783

What you expected to happen: The errors should not appear as the code needs to be adjusted to avoid this messages to appear.

What happened instead: The errors are still showing in syslog even on new instances with Ubuntu 22.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: google-compute-engine 20211028.00-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-1010.15-gcp 5.15.35
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-1010-gcp x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Tue Jun 28 22:52:54 2022
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gce-compute-image-packages
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)