Bug#1040979: write_files: defer not working any more

[Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>]

Am 13.07.2023 um 19:07 schrieb Noah Meyerhans:
> I'm not able to reproduce the behavior you describe.  defer seems to
> work as expected.  For example:
>
> admin@ip-10-0-0-87:~$ ec2-metadata --ami-id
> ami-id: ami-0544719b13af6edc3
> admin@ip-10-0-0-87:~$ sudo cat /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt
> #cloud-config
> write_files:
> - content: |
>      testing. this file should be owned by the dynamically created user
>    path: /test-file
>    owner: admin:admin
>    defer: true
> admin@ip-10-0-0-87:~$ ls -l /test-file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 67 Jul 13 16:59 /test-file

That example does not work for me on Hetzner.cloud.

> I note that your cloud-config attempts to set the locale:
>
> > #cloud-config
> > locale: de_DE.UTF-8
>
> I suspect that that's failing (see #955733) and interfering with
> subsequent module execution.  If you remove the `locale` setting, does
> your userdata work as expected?

Running without locale does not change anything.

"grep write-files-deferred cloud-init.log" returns nothing.

Best,
 Sven