error: <LibcloudError in None 'Job did not complete in 180 seconds'>

[3noch]

I'm trying to upload/copy/clone/create (whatever nixops does) a GCE bootstrap image. It comes in at 100 GB. I can't get the deploy to complete because of this error error: <LibcloudError in None 'Job did not complete in 180 seconds'>. But I'm using the configuration from the docs:

  resources.gceImages.bootstrap = credentials // {
    sourceUri = "gs://nixos/nixos-16.09pre-git-x86_64-linux.raw.tar.gz";
  };

[3noch]

I'm still having trouble with this image. Does anyone know if it's still being hosted? If not how can I get it back?

[domenkozar]

@rbvermaa or @Phreedom could help

[3noch]

Great! @rbvermaa or @Phreedom I'm in a pickle because I started my first production server based on the docs as they were at the time. They now point to a 14 version so I'm thinking that someone didn't think 16.09 was appropriate? Regardless, I now have production servers that I can't rebuild because that image is MIA!

[rbvermaa]

@3noch can you try using the default images. NixOps GCE network don't need a bootstrap image in your network anymore, and it will use one of these depending on your NixOS version you are going to deploy (defaults to 16.03 it seems):

./nix/eval-machine-info.nix:        "14.12" = "gs://nixos-cloud-images/nixos-14.12.471.1f09b77-x86_64-linux.raw.tar.gz";
./nix/eval-machine-info.nix:        "15.09" = "gs://nixos-cloud-images/nixos-15.09.425.7870f20-x86_64-linux.raw.tar.gz";
./nix/eval-machine-info.nix:        "16.03" = "gs://nixos-cloud-images/nixos-image-16.03.847.8688c17-x86_64-linux.raw.tar.gz";

[3noch]

@rbvermaa Thanks for the quick response! I'm not sure what you mean. How do I get nixops to not build a bootstrap image?

[3noch]

Perhaps I need to upgrade nixops?

[rbvermaa]

@Phreedom will now the exact details, but I believe nixops will create a bootstrap image for you if you do not provide one in your network, based on the options I posted earlier.

[3noch]

cc @grahamc

[3noch]

I think I may have changed that URL manually at some point and forgotten that I did that. But the deploy still worked with an older image because nix and nixops are even cooler than I realized and they will make the image match your needed config for the deployment. @rbvermaa has cleaned up the docs to make it less troublesome for the future. From now on I'll just leave out the bootstrap image configuration and let nixops pick a default that is close enough to my deployment. Awesome work. Feel free to close.

[Phreedom]

Looks like this happens because GCE takes too long to create the image. It shouldn't be hard to raise the timeout but the question is what value we should pick...

[3noch]

@Phreedom Actually it's because the URL I was using doesn't point to anything...apparently. But somehow it doesn't cause an immediate error.

[Phreedom]

ouch! Nice libcloud bug.