Initramfs-less boot, which is a boot optimization, should only be
applied where we know it could work for users and provide an improved
boot boot experience; images with custom kernels are candidates for
that.
Generic cloud images with the linux-generic kernel are not able to
boot without an initramfs. Previously, these images attempted to boot
without an initramfs, would fail, and then retry with an initramfs.
This slows the boot and is confusing behavior.
It was reported and confirmed in LP bug #1875400
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1875400) that on the public
KVM cloud image there exists a large list of packages marked for auto-removal.
This should never be the case on a released cloud image.
These packages are marked for auto-removal because in the KVM image binary hook
we removed both initramfs-tools and busybox-initramfs packages. Due to package
dependencies this also removed:
busybox-initramfs* cloud-initramfs-copymods* cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf*
cryptsetup-initramfs* initramfs-tools* initramfs-tools-core* multipath-tools*
overlayroot* sg3-utils-udev* ubuntu-server*
But it did not remove all the packages that the above list depended on.
This resulted in all those packages being marked for auto-removal because they
were not manually installed nor did they have any manually installed packages
that depended on them.
The removal of initramfs-tools and busybox-initramfs was to avoid the
generation of initramfs in images that should boot initramfsless.
This requirement is obsolete now because the initramfsless boot handling
is now handled via setting GRUB_FORCE_PARTUUID in /etc/default/grub.d/40-force-partuuid.cfg.
In test images I have verified that GRUB_FORCE_PARTUUID is set and that
boot speeds have not regressed.
LP: #1875400
Vagrant images were previously put at 10G, but this was a regression
from Trusty, in which they were 40G. This made it a tough sell for
users to upgrade if they were using a Ubuntu desktop experience.
This change does not impact disk usage as Vagrant with the virtualbox
provider dynamically allocates space with the VMDK. On a test system,
the VMDK took up 1.1G of disk space according to df, and after
creating a 2G file in Vagrant, the VMDK grew to 3.1G.
Therefore, users who are running on a system with little free space will
not see adverse effects if they upgrade to a new vagrant image
Seeing any snap via snap_preseed will evaluate the base for each snap
and seed the appropriate base. There should be no reason to explicitly
seed the 'core' snap and with snaps moving to 'core18' this will add
'core' without need.
The _snap_post_process function is meant to install snapd if core18 is the
only core snap installed or removed snapd if core is installed and snapd
was not explicitly installed. But the current logic in _snap_preseed
will never call _snap_post_process. $core_name will never be empty
with the existing logic, but even if it were that would only be for the
'core' snap and we'd miss using the 'core18' logic that pulls in snapd.
Given the case statement in _snap_post_process can handle doing the
right thing given any snap we can just call it unconditionally.
In the buildd image chroot, /etc/resolv.conf is a symbolic link to
a configuration file in the /run directory. A call to truncate will
modify that file, which we should not do. Instead, we want to remove
the symbolic link and replace it with an empty file.
The base image is built with packages from the release pocket; however,
we want the latest from updates and security. Those pockets are already
enabled, we just need to perform an upgrade to pull in the latest
packages.
Back in 2017 some code was added to ignore failures tearing down loop
devices. But debugging that growpart race on cloud images made me (very)
aware of a potential cause of the race: doing something like zerofree on
a device will cause udev scripts to run, and if they are still running
by the time kpartx is called, you would expect the kpartx -d to fail. So
lets see if a udevadm settle helps, and get rid of one of the "sometimes
this fails but we don't know why" comments...
With the removal of snap-tool failures are seen in image builds that do
not have the 'core' snap included by the seed. This is the case for the
minimized subproject of the ubuntu-cpc project where lxd/core is removed.
In that subproject, any binary hook which adds a snap that is based
on 'core' will not add 'core' and fail 'snap debug validate-seed'.
snap-tool included the following logic in the 'snap-tool info' when
determining snap bases:
# Have "base" initialized to something meaningful.
if self.is_core_snap():
snap_data["snap"]["base"] = ""
elif snap_data["snap"].get("base") is None:
snap_data["snap"]["base"] = "core"
The snap store does not return a base if the base is core which makes
this necessary. This patch looks for the base in 'snap info' output
and if none is found (and the snap is not snapd or core) it assumes the
base is 'core' and installs it. This restores the behavior lost in the
migration from snap-tool to snap cli.
snap-tool was added to support a deprecate cohort-key feature of the snap store.
Recent changes in snap assertions have added additional fields which snap-tool
is not retrieving. This resulted in snap install failures on first boot.
This patch removes snap-tool and returns to using the snap cli. This ensures
snap downloads will function without odd incompatibilities.
- drop ds-identify policy, not needed with improved cloud config
- drop disabling network, doesn't work with ip=
- fixup setting up the INSTALLER_ROOT mountpoint
- enable cloud-init
- make cloud-init handle the default/baked in networking configuration
- install and enable openssh-server for the installation only
- provide cloud.cfg that generates random installer user password
- disable subiquity on sclp_line0 line based console
Instead of injecting an empty resolv.conf with an includes.chroot, we'll
inject it in late with a hook. The empty resolv.conf breaks DNS early in
the build, and causes some binary hooks to fail.
Subiquity images mount /usr/lib/modules from a squashfs, which systemd
tries to unmount on shutdown, whilst they are still being in use. As
systemd-udevd kmod built-in's libkmod has modules.* files
memorymapped. This produces an warning on shutdown, flooding the
screen with messages as systemd switches to a more verbose
output. Specify LazyUnmount=yes on that mount, such that unmount call
succeeds without flooding the shutdown log.
When we encounter a failure in 'lb binary' the launchpad builders can
only surface the build output from stdout. If the binary hook failure
implicates the archive we can not determine fault without the apt
proxy log. This patch will dump the proxy log to stdout to aid in
debugging these failures.
As discussed and explained to Jibel and Didier on 17th of June, based
on canary image build logs, it showed clearly that lb controlled
initrd was only built once at the very first layer by
chroot_hacks. However, that is the wrong layer to build the final
initrd at, as at this point casper is not present yet and is not part
of the build.
Thus insure that chroot_hacks only runs at the live layer.
Ideally a subset of chroot_hacks should run on every layer, as each
layer should be squeaky clean, and most of layers without
initrds. However, jibel & didrocks are still implementing requested
patches to unbreak layer images and make each layer smaller. Hence
this minimal portion of the overall required work.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>
When getting the list of snaps to include on an image via germinate, we
process the snaps in alphabetical order. Currently we seed several
packages `gnome-foo` and also `gtk-common-themes`, the default provider
of `gtk-3-themes`. Since `gtk-common-themes` is alphabetically after
`gnome-foo`, the `seed.yaml` we generate is invalid when we are part way
through generating.
What we really care about, though, is not that the `seed.yaml` is always
valid at every step, but it is that it is valid at the *end* of seeding.
So for the germinate case, let's defer validation to happen once at the
end. Other callsites of `snap_preseed`, where callers are careful to
seed snaps in the right order, are unaffected by this.
Chroot deconfiguration should happen in the opposite order from chroot
configuration, so, for symmetry, undivert_grub should be called between
"lb chroot_debianchroot remove" and "lb chroot_sysfs remove".
The livecd.ubuntu-cpc.ext4 that is present in each build (plus kernel
and initrd) are not renamed from /build/binary/boot/filsystem.ext4
and friends until after the binary hooks are run, so this patch moves
from trying to perform this cleanup in a binary hook. Now the cleanup
will be run at the end of live-build/binary for the ubuntu-cpc project.
In parallel builds where a list of image targets are provided the build
may produce binaries that are not part of the named set of targets but
are created by series dependencies. These implicitly created binaries
may be generated by multiple builds but are unused as our convention for
the ubuntu-cpc project is to only consume binaries from the explicitly
named image targets; this avoid overwriting the same object by multiple
parallel builds.
This patch adds support for a 'provides' keyword for series files. It can
be specified multiple times per series file. The field is used by the
make-hooks script to generate a list of output files created explicitly by
the named image targets. The list is saved to the "explicit_provides"
file in the hooks output directory. In the case of the "all" target
this list would be empty. This list is consumed by the "final.binary"
hook file.
This patch adds support for optional final.binary hooks in hooks.d/base
and/or hooks.d/extra. These final.binary hooks are always included as
the last hook(s) if either exist with the hook in "extra" running last.
The base/final.binary hook includes logic to parse the "explicit_provides"
file generated by the make-hooks script and remove any binary output not
explicitly specified.
Some series files named unnecessary dependencies, specifically
disk-image, to keep output of implicit artifacts consistent between
parallel builds. These unnecessary dependencies are removed in this
patch.
This is apparently still required; without it snapd gives an error
message like:
stateengine.go:102: state ensure error: devicemgr: cannot proceed without seeding "core"
We are creating a derivative of disk-image, replacing the kernel with
linux-kvm, removing initramfs, and creating a qcow2 image.
Source: ~patviafore/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs:linux_kvm_image
Modifications: fixed conflict in debian/changelog entry and bumped
version.
Signed-off-by: Tiago Stürmer Daitx <tdaitx@gmail.com>
Configure cloud-init to look for its seed in the vFAT boot partition on
raspberry pi images; the corresponding gadget is configured to place the
user-data, meta-data, and network-config files there.
Source: ~waveform/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs:cloud-init-boot
This is another thing that goes unused when there is no human console user
(and we already don't have the locales themselves present on a minimal
image).
Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829333
The addition of disk-image to series files in a prior commit required
some explanation. Without comment support in series files that was
not possible. This patch adds support for comments and adds those
comments as well.
The following targets have livecd.ubuntu-cpc.manifest (and
livecd.ubuntu-cpc.ext4) which differ in some way from the 'all'
target. They are all missing grub-efi and other modifications:
root-dir
squashfs
tarball
These targets do not depend on the 'disk-image' target. This means that
the ext4 produced will lack the uefi modifications (and any from the
disk-image target binary hooks).
Since the ext4 file is common to all builds there is a chance that a
parallel build from one of these targets could overwrite this artifact.
This patch ensures that all targets will produce consistent base output.
This avoids us having apt cache files in the final image.
For auto/build, we move the call to clean_debian_chroot to the end,
this also takes care of the caches generated by apt-get update
in case of a preinstalled-pool.
For layered, it's just a simple swap of the lines.
LP: #1826377
commit a993592 introduced an additional call to create_manifest
(and snap-seed-parse) to write binary/boot/filesystem.packages. This
caused duplicate snap lines in the qcow manifest. This is because the
live-build/auto/binary code assumes that after 'lb binary' is run the
filesystem.packages will only have debs and it calls snap-seed-parse to
add them to the file. The commit changed filesystem.packages in the
ubuntu-cpc uefi binary hook to include debs and snaps.
This patch keeps the intent of the prior patch, updating the
filesystem.packages file for the content of the uefi disk image, but
only writes a listing of debian packages to match the expected content
of filesystem.packages. The snaps will still be added in generic code
in live-build/auto/build.
ubuntu-cdimage/debian-cd/tools/add_live_filesystem helpfully adds a
'filesystem.' prefix to the squashfs, hence the name of the file
didn't match what's on disk.
grub-probe must not be called during image build so grub is diverted. In
multilayer image the chroot is always the tip of the filesystem, so we
divert grub at the beginning of each pass and undivdert it as the end.
For flat images, it's diverted just before building the chroot and
undiverted after.
UbuntuStudio image builds have recently begun failing as a result of adding a
grub theme customization to their flavor, which they then try to apply by
running update-grub from their maintainer scripts. This fails with:
Setting up plymouth-theme-ubuntustudio (0.57) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntustudio-logo/ubuntustudio-logo.plymouth to provide /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth (default.plymouth) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntustudio-text/ubuntustudio-text.plymouth to provide /usr/share/plymouth/themes/text.plymouth (text.plymouth) in auto mode
update-initramfs: diverted by livecd-rootfs (will be called later)
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
dpkg: error processing package plymouth-theme-ubuntustudio (--configure):
installed plymouth-theme-ubuntustudio package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Packages providing grub themes should be able to call update-grub from their
maintainer scripts, and they should be able to be installed under
livecd-rootfs. It's surprising to me that this hasn't been a problem before
now for any flavors.
We know that grub-probe should not be called as part of an image build, so
just use our standard helper function to divert it before running the chroot
stage and undivert it after.
Installing policyrcd-script-zg2 doesn't quite do this because of the way
that live-build installs its own temporary version of policy-rc.d. The
only remotely sensible way I can see to deal with this is to create the
symlink manually.
Remove wants from local-fs.target, add wants from the uuid device instead.
Tested by applying these changes from pre-pivot-root by modifying
/root files in place whilst booting with break=bottom.
Util-linux 2.33 fixed mount --rbind --make-rslave which did not pass MS_REC
with MS_BIND and livecd-rootfs did only --bind --make-rslave effectively with
prior mount versions.
While mount --rbind --rslave are properly passed the flags to mount()
unmounting did not work cleanly with --make-rslave.
To clearly stop propagation of umount, --make-private is used instead of
--make-rslave and it is always set before umounts. Umount -R is replaced
with a simple umount since submounts are tore down in teardown_mountpoint()
earlier.
LP: #1813730
When the REPO_SNAPSHOT_STAMP variable is set, the auto/build script will attempt
to launch a transparent HTTP proxy on port 8080, and insert an iptables rule to
redirect all outgoing HTTP requests to this proxy.
The proxy, contained in the `magic-proxy` Python script, examines each request
and silently overrides those pointing to InRelease files or files that are
listed in InRelease files. It will instead provide the contents of the requested
file as it was at REPO_SNAPSHOT_STAMP, by downloading the corresponding asset
"by hash".
Adds a function reduce_pass_size which removes duplicated files between
layers. A duplicate file is a file with same path, size, mode, owners
and content on 2 related layers.
We don't want to regress the ubuntu desktop traditional image when
livecd-rootfs lands uncordinated with ubuntu-cdimage & debian-cd.
Decoupling enables us to:
- land livecd-rootfs (no change for ubuntu-desktop project,
ubuntu-desktop:ubiquity-ng can be tested once the 2 others branches
lands)
- land ubuntu-cdimage & debian-cd for publishing any arbitrary squashfs
names
- finally, revert that commit and land it in livecd-rootfs to transform
the traditional ubuntu-desktop image to a layered approach.
Fixed prefix for passes to not conflict with global prefix
Set layer to none for layer without language packs
Copy size and manifest to the target directory
Make sure the diff always diffes existing manifests
lb_chroot_includes now takes the name of the pass as first argument and
will includes files for the corresponding pass from the directory
include.chroot.<pass>
Default Ubuntu desktop to the layered format
Remove the requirement on setting IMAGEFORMAT to layered to build a
layered image and relies on PASSED instead.
David Krauser
Dimitri John Ledkov
Steve Langasek
Balint Reczey
Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
Philip Roche
Jinming Wu, Patrick
Pat Viafore
Robert C Jennings
Michael Hudson-Doyle
Iain Lane
Adam Conrad
Colin Watson
David Krauser
Michael Vogt
Tobias Koch
Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Julian Andres Klode
Didier Roche
Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Jean-Baptiste Lallement