[CentOS] Trouble with CentOS-Stream-GenericCloud-9-20211208.0.x86_64.qcow2

Wed Dec 22 02:48:42 UTC 2021
Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com>

On 12/9/21 21:10, centos at centos.org wrote:
> I'm trying to test out the CentOS Stream 9 GenericCloud images.  I'm 
> installing with:
> 
> VM_NAME="centos-stream9"
> USER_DATA="user-data"
> DISK="CentOS-Stream-GenericCloud-9.x86_64.qcow2"
> 
> 
> virt-install \
> --name "${VM_NAME}" \
> --memory 2048 \
> --vcpus 2 \
> --import \
> --cloud-init user-data="${USER_DATA}" \
> --os-variant centos-stream9 \
> --disk "${DISK}" \
> --network network=default,model=virtio \
> --graphics none \
> --virt-type kvm
> 
> But I'm ending up with a corrupted disk image, e.g.:
> 
> # ls -l /var/lib
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/unbound': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/systemd': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/logrotate': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/rpcbind': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/os-prober': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/setroubleshoot': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/rsyslog': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/dhclient': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/kdump': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/cloud': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/nfs': Permission denied
> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/chrony': Permission denied
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      84 Dec  7 10:24 alternatives
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    4096 Dec  7 10:23 authselect
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? chrony
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? cloud
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? dhclient
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      80 Dec  7 10:24 dnf
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       6 Aug  9 16:40 games
> drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root      55 Dec  9 22:59 gssproxy
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       6 Aug 24 10:22 initramfs
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? kdump
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? logrotate
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       6 Aug  9 16:40 misc
> drwx------. 2 root root     122 Dec  9 22:59 NetworkManager
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? nfs
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? os-prober
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       6 Aug  9 22:08 PackageKit
> drwxr-x---. 3 root polkitd   28 Dec  7 10:22 polkit-1
> drwx------. 2 root root       6 Dec  7 10:22 private
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? rpcbind
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      91 Aug 19 10:39 rpm
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       6 Dec  7 10:22 rpm-state
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? rsyslog
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root      46 Dec  7 10:22 selinux
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? setroubleshoot
> drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root     105 Dec  7 10:22 sss
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? systemd
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root      20 Dec  7 10:22 tpm2-tss
> d?????????? ? ?    ?          ?            ? unbound
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?  Anything I'm doing wrong?
> 
> I'm not seeing any error in the boot messages.
> 

I still get this consistently with the GenericCloud images.  Is there 
something wrong with them or with my system?

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