Re: [atomic] Cloud init fails to install packages on Atomic Host

[Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Shibu Gope <shibug gmail com> wrote:
> So I added runcmd in my user-data like below:
>
> runcmd:
>
>  - rm -fr /etc/localtime; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago
> /etc/localtime
>
>  - echo alias docker='docker-latest' >> /etc/bashrc
>
>  - echo alias man="'atomic run rhel7/rhel-tools man'" >> /etc/bashrc

I got this working by replacing:

>
>  - /usr/bin/rpm-ostree pkg-add zsh git wget vim-enhanced
>
>  - /usr/bin/systemctl reboot

with:

- /usr/bin/rpm-ostree pkg-add zsh git wget vim-enhanced --reboot

>
>
> All commands except the last two commands won't run.  There is no error in
> /var/log/cloud-init.log and the script in
> /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/runcmd still list all the commands
> specified.  Not sure if this is a problem with cloud init or atomic os?
>
> the only way I could get the last two commands to run is keeping them in a
> separate script and including it in the mime multipart user-data and then
> anything in the runcmd won't run because of the last reboot command.


>
> I also tried using the bootcmd module and it blocks even SSH logging if I
> try to add packages via rpm-ostree there.
>