Introduction
Sometimes when using MAAS a curtin error occurs either because MAAS is instructing curtin incorrectly or because curtin is working incorrectly. I will give the steps to get the best logs to detemine the issue.
Note that {profile} should be the profile name used when logging into the maas CLI (aka. maas) and the {system_id} is the system ID of the node that failed to install.
Enable verbose logging
First thing to do is enable verbose logging of curtin:
maas {profile} maas set-config name=curtin_verbose value=true
(Re-)Run the deployment
Run the deployment of the machine so curtin will be told to provide detailed logging and wait for the failure to occur. Once the failure has occurred lets gather the logs.
Gather the curtin config
First lets get the curtin config that MAAS sent to curtin.
maas {profile} machine get-curtin-config {system_id}
Gather the curtin-logs.tar
Now lets gather the curtin logs tarball that includes all the logs curtin requires to help with debugging.
maas {profile} node-results read system_id={system_id} name=/tmp/curtin-logs.tar | jq -r .[0].data | base64 -d > curtin-logs.tar
Attach to a bug and get to digging!
Attach the curtin config and the curtin-logs.tar to a bug with a detailed description of how to reproduce. Then get to solving the problem! 