[Bug 1266893] [NEW] unable to complete getting the ephemeral images

[Jeff Lane]

Public bug reported:

My setup:
Trusty on an IBM Thinkpad x201.
Onboard Gigabit is static on 10.0.0.0 (The private MAAS lan)
Internet connectivity is via an 802.11n WiFi dongle
My internet connection is a 10Mbit ADSL line

I have installed and configured maas.  The next step, per the
instructions here:

maas.ubuntu.com/docs/instal.html#import-the-boot-images

is this:

$ maas-cli maas nde-groups import-boot-images

While doing this, I observed that it first called maas-import-pxe-files
which ran to completion pulling all the PXE files and putting them in
/var/lib/maas/tftp/*

Next, it calls maas-import-ephemerals

This ran and did NOTHING.  It just sat there, no network traffic in or
out, no disk activity, no data written to /var/lib/maas/ephemeral.  I
left it sitting for over an hour and it never actually started
downloading any images .

I finally killed off the process and ran maas-import-ephemerals
manually.  This time, it did begin downloading images, converting them
and copying them to /var/lib/maas/ephemerals.  But then it just stopped
as though it had lost the connection th wherever it's downloading from,
or something.  It never exited, it just ... paused and never restarted.
I let THIS sit for an hour and noticed that there was absolutely NO
further related network activity, disk activity or aything.

So I finally killed that process off as well.

Next, I tried breaking it down into smaller chunks like so:

$ sudo maas-import-ephemerals release=RELEASE

Doing it this way, I was able to fully download Saucy, Raring, Quantal
and Precise.  Currently, trying with trusty does nothing (it doesn't
seem to do anything at all.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: maas 1.4+bzr1789+dfsg-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan  7 13:08:02 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-07 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140106)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: maas
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: maas (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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