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Latest cloud-init fails with AttributeError: 'DataSourceVMware' object has no attribute 'rpctool'

Bug #2056439 reported by Thomas Seip on 2024-03-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Chad Smith

Bug Description

Our current VMs are all reporting the same error, since they upgraded cloud-init to the version 23.4.4-0ubuntu0~22.04.1.
If I downgrade cloud-init to version 23.1.2-0ubuntu0~22.04.1, the problem disappears.

The following error is visible in journalctl:
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: 2024-03-07 09:56:44,701 - util.py[WARNING]: failed stage init
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: failed run of stage init
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: ------------------------------------------------------------
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 781, in status_wrapper
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: ret = functor(name, args)
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 461, in main_init
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: init.setup_datasource()
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 531, in setup_datasource
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: self.datasource.setup(is_new_instance=self.is_new_instance())
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMware.py", line 239, in setup
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: advertise_local_ip_addrs(host_info, self.rpctool, self.rpctool_fn)
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: AttributeError: 'DataSourceVMware' object has no attribute 'rpctool'
Mar 07 10:56:44 hostname-redacted cloud-init[2190514]: ------------------------------------------------------------

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: cloud-init 23.4.4-0ubuntu0~22.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-97.107-generic 5.15.136
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-97-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: vmware
CloudName: vmware
CloudPlatform: vmware
CloudSubPlatform: guestinfo (guestinfo.metadata)
Date: Thu Mar 7 11:15:49 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-03-02 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230217.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
SubiquityClientDebug:
2024-03-02 02:32:03,283 INFO subiquity:126 Starting Subiquity revision 4380
2024-03-02 02:32:03,284 INFO subiquity:127 Arguments passed: ['/snap/subiquity/4380/usr/bin/subiquity']
2024-03-02 02:32:03,284 DEBUG subiquitycore.screen:135 KDGKBTYPE returned b'\x02', is_linux_tty True
2024-03-02 02:32:03,284 DEBUG asyncio:59 Using selector: EpollSelector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Thomas Seip (btseip) wrote on 2024-03-07:

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ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SubiquityServerDebug.txt Edit (108.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
cloud-init-log-warnings.txt Edit (392 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Thomas Seip (btseip) on 2024-03-08

summary:

- Latest cloud-init fails with AttributeError: 'DataSourceVMware
+ Latest cloud-init fails with AttributeError: 'DataSourceVMware' object
+ has no attribute 'rpctool'

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Alberto Contreras (aciba) wrote on 2024-03-11:

Thanks, Thomas, for reporting this!

Upstream PR fixing this: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/5021

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Chad Smith (chad.smith)

Brett Holman (holmanb) on 2024-03-12

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2024-03-13:

This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 24.1.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
cloud-init (24.1.1-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Upstream snapshot based on 24.1.1.
    List of changes from upstream can be found at
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canonical/cloud-init/24.1.1/ChangeLog
    - Bugs fixed in this snapshot: (LP: #2056439, #2056460, #2055077)
      (LP: #2056194)

-- Brett Holman <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:09:37 -0600

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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