The commissioning script 00-maas-03-install-lldpd outputs to stderr.

Setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive in the environment before calling apt-get might be all we need.

I've seen this work before (a couple of days ago) so I'm afraid this might be caused by a recent change.

But your suggestion is worth a try, could you create a package with a fix and put it in the experimental ppa?

In another run, I had the exact same errors but 2 nodes, out of 4, had the lldp information. I suspect "dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory" is simply something that apt-get spits out but that it doesn't mean anything serious happened. Thus reducing the priority to medium.

Now, why in one case, none of the nodes had any lldp info attached and in the other case, 2 of them had the info, that is a bit mysterious; given that the lldp info is something that takes some time to gather, is it possible that mere chance is at play here?

What is more concerning is that the LLDP data does not always get
collected. Let's get Gavin's suggestion implemented for a start.

This is critical for the feature, marking accordingly.

Usually, LLDP data is broadcasted every 30 seconds. You can check with tcpdump if you want (tcpdump -pni XXX ether host 01:80:c2:00:00:0e). If you don't have neighbor information, maybe you can wait for it with "lldpcli watch" (combined with timeout command since it may never returns).

> Usually, LLDP data is broadcasted every 30 seconds.

The lldpd_wait commissioning script waits 60 seconds, which /should/ be long enough, but I think it would be fine to up that to, say 90 seconds or more.

(Thanks Vincent.)

saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".