Ubuntu
casper package

/etc/pollinate/add-user-agent should be populated (in the server live env) to allow better identification of live clients

Bug #1853912 reported by Steve Langasek on 2019-11-25

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
casper (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Bionic	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-18.04.4
Focal	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]

Pollinate provides various bits of information in the user agent to allow gathering of statistics about Ubuntu clients. Unfortunately, the 'subiquity' tag is only added (via curtin->cloud-init) to the user agent tag in the *target* system; the live environment, which also runs pollinate for entropy gathering, does not have any such tag. This makes it impossible to distinguish booted live server images from other "generic" clients in the data.

It would be valuable to have a tag identifying the live server image for statistical and debugging purposes.

I would suggest using 'live/<serial>' as a tag, where <serial> is the image build serial from /mnt/.disk/info.

This probably needs to be done by casper reading the file and synthesizing the content on the live overlay.

[Test Case]

* Boot subiquity live session
* Run $ pollinate --print-user-agent
* Check that it contains ISO .disk/info information

[Regression Potential]

* User-agent configuration support is in place in bionic and used by other images (i.e. cloud). This completes configuring pollinate in subiquity images, in a similar way as is done on other images.

See original description

Tags:

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2019-11-25

affects:	livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu) → casper (Ubuntu)
summary:	- /etc/pollinate/add-user-agent should be populated in the (server live + /etc/pollinate/add-user-agent should be populated (in the server live env) to allow better identification of live clients

Revision history for this message

Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2019-11-26:

In general I would prefer to do more things in livecd-rootfs and fewer in casper, but if you need the device serial then yeah, I guess we need to do this in casper.

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2019-11-26

tags:

added: rls-ff-incoming

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2019-12-05

tags:

removed: rls-ff-incoming

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2019-12-18:

This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.436

---------------
casper (1.436) focal; urgency=medium

* Configure pollinate, if installed, in the live session to include image
serial in the user agent. (LP: #1853912)

-- Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:53:24 +1300

Changed in casper (Ubuntu Focal):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Francis Ginther (fginther) on 2019-12-20

tags:

added: id-5ddc59e338350f56f906d247

Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) on 2020-01-16

description:	updated
Changed in casper (Ubuntu Bionic):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-18.04.4
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2020-01-16: Please test proposed package

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted casper into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/1.394.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. To properly test it you will need to obtain and boot a daily build of a Live CD for bionic. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in casper (Ubuntu Bionic):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2020-01-22:

The package in bionic-proposed lacked the executable bit on the new script. Have reuploaded it with that bit set.

tags:

added: verification-failed-bionic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote on 2020-01-22:

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted casper into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/1.394.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

tags:

added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
removed: verification-failed-bionic

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2020-01-23:

Screenshot from 2020-01-23 22-04-14.png Edit (25.6 KiB, image/png)

That one works better, picture attached.

tags:

added: verification-done verification-done-bionic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-01-28:

This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.394.2

---------------
casper (1.394.2) bionic; urgency=medium

* Add +x bit to scripts/casper-bottom/57pollinate.

casper (1.394.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Hudson-Doyle ]
  * Configure pollinate, if installed, in the live session to include image
    serial in the user agent. (LP: #1853912)

-- Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:05:42 +1300

Changed in casper (Ubuntu Bionic):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2020-01-28: Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for casper has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.