Failed to start Execute cloud user/final scripts.

[Scott Moser]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Daniel Bidwell wrote:

> I am running maas-2.1.21 with ubuntu-16.04
> installing on /dev/sde1 which is labeled for gpt
>
> deployment fails with "Failed to start Execute cloud user/final
> scripts."
>
> The cloud-init.log contains:
> Nov 29 16:36:23 acauitsr9u40 [CLOUDINIT] util.py[WARNING]: Running
> module scripts-user (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_scripts_user' from
> '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_user.py'>)
> failed
> Nov 29 16:36:23 acauitsr9u40 [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Running module
> scripts-user (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_scripts_user' from
> '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_user.py'>)
> failed#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 792, in
> _run_modules#012    freq=freq)#012  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-
> packages/cloudinit/cloud.py", line 70, in run#012    return
> self._runners.run(name, functor, args, freq, clear_on_fail)#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 200, in
> run#012    return (True, results)#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3.5/contextlib.py", line 77, in
> __exit__#012    self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 88, in
> lock#012    yield self._acquire(name, freq)#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 199, in
> run#012    results = functor(*args)#012  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-
> packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_user.py", line 57, in
> handle#012    util.runparts(runparts_path)#012  File
> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 800, in
> runparts#012    % (len(failed), len(attempted)))#012RuntimeError:
> Runparts: 1 failures in 1 attempted commands
>
> What causes this?  What other logs are useful in debugging this?  How
> do I fix it?

The output of all cloud-init initiated commands goes to the
 * console (ie, serial console or vga)
 * /var/log/cloud-init-output.log
 * systemctl status cloud-final.service

For the last, though the journal might have been rotated and you not get
all of the output.