Comment 10 for bug 989355

Thanks Julian for giving us some insight into the cause of this issue! If you have some insight into the command sequence MAAS is running then I hope you can help identify a workaround to enable adding nodes or create a mini-Howto manually remove a partially added node (from Cobbler, dnsmasq, etc managed by MAAS).

> But the MAAS server has a 7 second timeout waiting for pserv/cobbler operations.
Can we change this timeout as a workaround for this issue?

> Does re-adding the node work quicker the second time?
How to do this if when the MAAS "Add Node" process is incomplete but did define a system in Cobbler so the same node cannot be re-added in MAAS web UI?

In the couple of "timed out" failed adding of nodes that I've seen, the MAAS web UI doesn't allow re-adding or appear to have an option to re-try. Just naively re-entering the MAC address fails and I recall Cobbler logging "duplicate MAC address" or similar error after defining a duplicate incomplete system record (missing a mac-address field value).

I've tried re-adding after finding the newly added node's name from the output of "cobbler system list" then remove it with "cobbler system remove --name=<NewNodeName>".