Unable to commission machines; commision can't pull from apt. Deployed machines work fine

Why would this happen during commission?

2019-10-26T05:39:24+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Reading package lists...                                                                                                 
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Reading package lists...                                                                                                 
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Building dependency tree...                                                                                              
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Reading state information...                                                                                             
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: Package ipmitool is not available, but is referred to by another package.                                                
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or                                                        
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: is only available from another source                                                                                    
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: E: Package 'ipmitool' has no installation candidate                                                                      
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: E: Unable to locate package sshpass                                                                                      
2019-10-26T05:39:25+00:00 maas-enlisting-node cloud-init[2214]: E: Unable to locate package jq

Deploying images work fine. Running machines work fine. Commissioning machines don’t work.

This environment is nearly air-gapped. During commission, there’s a call to a snap repo, which fails. Does that have to succeed in order for commissioning machines to succeed?

Package ipmitool is not available ,
No ipmitool this package
You can try another repo:

Yup. I knew that was the problem. I didn’t understand why this was only happening during commission since ipmitool is installed in other phases.

At any rate, we figured out the problem. Please see the linked bug ticket.