cc_rsyslog.py:205: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 23

Hi Tommi,

Thanks for the bug report! I'm not seeing this in my logs when I launch Ubuntu disco (which has Python 3.7) images. Can you give me some concrete steps to reproduce this issue so we can be sure that any changes we might make will actually fix the issue you're seeing?

Thanks!

Hi,

I can reproduce the warning by launching Ubuntu disco image with the following steps (in fedora 29).

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/disco/20190211/disco-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

cat >my-user-data <<EOF
#cloud-config
password: passw0rd
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
EOF

echo "instance-id: $(uuidgen)" >my-meta-data
cloud-localds my-seed.img my-user-data my-meta-data

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b disco-server-cloudimg-amd64.img my-disk.qcow2
qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm -cdrom my-seed.img -hda my-disk.qcow2
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The FutureWarning then seen in the VM serial console output:

...
[ 8.207739] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: +++++++++++++++++++Route IPv6 info+++++++++++++++++++
[ 8.212932] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+---------+-----------+-------+
[ 8.220609] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | Route | Destination | Gateway | Interface | Flags |
[ 8.225923] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+---------+-----------+-------+
[ 8.231616] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | 1 | fe80::/64 | :: | ens3 | U |
[ 8.238636] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | 2 | fec0::/64 | :: | ens3 | Ue |
[ 8.244156] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | 3 | ::/0 | fe80::2 | ens3 | UGe |
[ 8.247698] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | 5 | local | :: | ens3 | U |
[ 8.252484] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: | 6 | ff00::/8 | :: | ens3 | U |
[ 8.255744] cloud-init[364]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+---------+-----------+-------+
[ 8.738562] cloud-init[364]: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_rsyslog.py:205: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 23
[ 8.740304] cloud-init[364]: r'^(?P<proto>[@]{0,2})'
[ 8.741799] cloud-init[364]: Generating public/private rsa key pair.
[ 8.745423] cloud-init[364]: Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.
[ 8.748589] cloud-init[364]: Your public key has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub.
...

Thanks Tommi, I've been able to reproduce this now. (It turns out that launching a lxd container doesn't cause this to be emitted, but launching a cloud instance does.)

Is this a fix that you would be interested in submitting as a merge proposal?

I didn't plan to submit the fix (I have not signed the Canonical CLA).
So feel free to fix this.

This bug is fixed with commit f0f09629 to cloud-init on branch master.
To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=f0f09629

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 19.1. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3337