Running cloud-init collect-logs inside a chroot is not possible

Bug #1766335 reported by Philip Roche
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cloud-init
Fix Released
Medium
Scott Moser

Bug Description

When trying to debug boot issues of a GCE instance I mounted a snapshot of it's boot disk on a running instance and tried to run `sudo chroot /home/ubuntu/failedbootdebug/ cloud-init collect-logs`.

This results in the errors below.

Is running collect-logs inside a chroot an expected use case or should I just gather as much as I can from the list @ http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/capabilities.html#cloud-init-collect-logs ?

ubuntu@failed-boot-debug:~$ sudo chroot /home/ubuntu/failedbootdebug/ cloud-init collect-logs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('cloud-init==18.2', 'console_scripts', 'cloud-init')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 882, in main
    get_uptime=True, func=functor, args=(name, args))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 2395, in log_time
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 88, in handle_collect_logs_args
    collect_logs(args.tarfile, args.userdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 81, in collect_logs
    shutil.copytree(CLOUDINIT_RUN_DIR, os.path.join(run_dir, 'cloud-init'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/shutil.py", line 309, in copytree
    names = os.listdir(src)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/cloud-init'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 546, in add_proc_info
    self['ExecutablePath'] = os.readlink('/proc/' + pid + '/exe')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/1918/exe'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 109, in apport_excepthook
    pr.add_proc_info(extraenv=['PYTHONPATH', 'PYTHONHOME'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 549, in add_proc_info
    raise ValueError('invalid process')
ValueError: invalid process

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('cloud-init==18.2', 'console_scripts', 'cloud-init')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 882, in main
    get_uptime=True, func=functor, args=(name, args))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 2395, in log_time
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 88, in handle_collect_logs_args
    collect_logs(args.tarfile, args.userdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 81, in collect_logs
    shutil.copytree(CLOUDINIT_RUN_DIR, os.path.join(run_dir, 'cloud-init'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/shutil.py", line 309, in copytree
    names = os.listdir(src)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/cloud-init'
ubuntu@failed-boot-debug:~$

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Philip Roche (philroche) wrote :
description: updated
Chad Smith (chad.smith)
Changed in cloud-init:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Scott Moser (smoser)
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Chad Smith (chad.smith) wrote :

An upstream commit landed for this bug.

To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=9f5907e1

Changed in cloud-init:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Fixed in cloud-init version 18.3.

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 18.3. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

Changed in cloud-init:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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James Falcon (falcojr) wrote :
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