After updating to the latest cloud-init, errors with cloudinit.util

[weikinhuang]

Hi, I've created a new ubuntu 20.04 VM template with packer, it automatically installs cloud-init 20.3-2-g371b392c-0ubuntu1~20.04.1. This latest version is incompatible with this datasource.

2020-08-29 15:05:34,869 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: init-network/check-cache: SUCCESS: no cache found
2020-08-29 15:05:34,869 - util.py[DEBUG]: Attempting to remove /var/lib/cloud/instance
2020-08-29 15:05:34,870 - stages.py[DEBUG]: Using distro class <class 'cloudinit.distros.ubuntu.Distro'>
2020-08-29 15:05:34,871 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Looking for data source in: ['VMwareGuestInfo', 'None'], via packages ['', 'cloudinit.sources'] that matches dependencies ['FILESYSTEM', 'NETWORK']
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Searching for network data source in: ['DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo', 'DataSourceNone']
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: start: init-network/search-VMwareGuestInfo: searching for network data from DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Seeing if we can get any data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo'>
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Update datasource metadata and network config due to events: New instance first boot
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py[DEBUG]: Getting guestinfo value for key metadata
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: init-network/search-VMwareGuestInfo: FAIL: no network data found from DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - util.py[WARNING]: Getting data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo'> failed
2020-08-29 15:05:34,874 - util.py[DEBUG]: Getting data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo'> failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py", line 319, in get_guestinfo_value
    (stdout, stderr) = util.subp(
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py", line 770, in find_source
    if s.update_metadata([EventType.BOOT_NEW_INSTANCE]):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py", line 659, in update_metadata
    result = self.get_data()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py", line 125, in get_data
    self.metadata = load_metadata()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py", line 425, in load_metadata
    data = load(guestinfo('metadata'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py", line 399, in guestinfo
    data = get_guestinfo_value(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py", line 327, in get_guestinfo_value
    except util.ProcessExecutionError as error:
AttributeError: module 'cloudinit.util' has no attribute 'ProcessExecutionError'

Thanks!

[zurajm]

@weikinhuang I had exactly the same problem. But in the end seems unrelated to the latest Ubuntu cloud image but rather to the cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo master branch. If I installed it with referencing the git tag v1.3.1 everything works. I installed it like this:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo/master/install.sh | GIT_REF=v1.3.1 sh -

and everything works like expected 😄

[akutz]

Odd. I wonder what changed in cloud init. Or in this repo. I’ll bisect in the morning.

[weikinhuang]

Interesting, I'll try v1.3.1 later and see.

[jfroche]

#54 fixes this

[akutz]

Closed with #54