[Libguestfs] [v2v PATCH 4/4] convert_linux: install the QEMU guest agent with a firstboot script

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 03:53:39PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 06/09/22 15:10, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> 
> > nm-online -x -q ||
> > (
> >   systemctl -q is-active systemd-networkd &&
> >   /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online -q --timeout=30
> > )
> > 
> > If the final exit status is nonzero, I think that's not a problem for
> > the firstboot script.
> > 
> > The whole command seems to make sense also when nm-online, systemctl, or
> > both, are missing (a missing command results in exit status 127).
> 
> Unfortunately, this does not work. Even though the command succeeds very
> quickly (implying network is available), the DNF throws a CURL error
> that it cannot access the repo (DNS resolution failure). So basically
> "nm-online" lies.

That's annoying.

Thinking through this - it's a real guest boot (not libguestfs
appliance).  The network is up at some point possibly early in the
boot.  Could be some DNS resolver not yet started?  (systemd-resolved,
nscd, unbound, ...)

> Compare:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482476#c4
> 
> > My current workaround is to use "/usr/bin/sleep 60" instead of the
> > "/usr/bin/nm-online -s -q --timeout=30" command in the service unit
> > file.
> 
> :/
> 
> NB, when I log in at the root prompt of the just-firstbooted-guest (on
> tty1), and run "nm-online -x -q", it succeeds alright, and I can even
> ssh into the guest... (more precisely, I get an ssh password prompt; I
> can't actually log in as root via ssh due to the default sshd config not
> permitting that).
> 
> We can't rely on "nm-online" if it doesn't do its advertized job!

Rich.

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