Re: [PATCH] image-postproc-extension: empty mechine-id

["Su, Bao Cheng" <baocheng.su@siemens.com>]

Hello Baurzhan,

On 7/10/2019 4:48 PM, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello Bao Cheng,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:57:36AM +0000, Su, Bao Cheng wrote:
>> According to manpage of debian machine-id @
>> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/systemd/machine-id.5.en.html,
>> /etc/machine-id should be empty instead of removing.
>>
>> Also according to above manpage, the dbus machine-id is copied to
>> /etc/machine-id if systemd machine-id is empty. However, the dbus
>> machine-id is also created during isar building, which stays the same
>> for every machine using the same image.
>>
>> So here instead of removing, empty this file, and the mechine id will
>> be regenerated at the first boot. Also remove the dbus machine-id to
>> prevent copying.
> 
> Thanks, applied to next.
> 
> I couldn't observe your original "sys-subsystem-net-devices-multi-user.device
> timeouts" problem. Is it reproducible with stock Isar? Which architecture?
> 

It is reproducible on the commit 
6f4314237c228c303d8e85459974008b18996e0d, with an arm64 board.

> Also, at least for amd64, the machine id is only generated temporarily. The
> file is not replaced since /etc is read-only at that moment. So we have to
> revisit Claudius's rw patch. This works for arm since it is already rw.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Baurzhan.
> 

BRs,
SBC