Can't bootstrap with lxd on Arch Linux (EndeavourOS)

[ianmjones]

Thanks @wallyworld.

I’ve run a bunch of bootstraps on the VM and my main machine (now also running EndeavourOS) with that --debug option.

Long story short, the VM sometimes worked, sometimes not, but on my 24cpu/128Gb main machine it always worked.

This very much supports your theory that it may simply be down to either CPU or IO constrains causing the MongoDB initial startup to be just slow enough that it times out.

@jameinel

I would probably try without Juju in the mix, and just spinning up an LXD container and seeing whether you can install a snap inside (juju-db is obvious, but is there something about that snap, or is it just any snap).

Ran a few tests, snaps work fine, but do complain about cgroups v2…

root@focal:~# snap install hello-world
hello-world 6.4 from Canonical✓ installed
root@focal:~# hello-world
WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with partial confinement
Hello World!
root@focal:~#

@manadart

If it fails, you can then lxc exec <container> bash and interrogate logs.

I would look at:

• /var/log/cloud-init.log
• /var/log/cloud-init-output.log
• /var/log/syslog (I believe Mongo writes logs there).

I’ll keep this in mind if I manage to get any more breakage, thanks.