Unable to build the image

[LThai32422]

Hello,

I just started to learn Sceptre and followed the installation from this link:
https://sandialabs.github.io/sceptre-docs/quick-start.html#installation
and installed Sceptre, phenix, minimega. After finished the installation i was able to startup Phenix GUI.

I tried the "Getting Started - Helloworld Experiment". I was able to run step 1 (phenix image create -T /phenix/vmdb2/scripts/ubuntu --format qcow2 --release focal -c ubuntu). But received an error at step 2 (phenix image build ubuntu -o /phenix -c -x). This is the error:
.......
Phenix 2025/04/03 20:52:36 [bdc19fd0-a3c3-4f1d-8b66-96a9f17f76c7] building image with vmdb2: exit status 1
Error: Unable to build the ubuntu image (search error logs for bdc19fd0-a3c3-4f1d-8b66-96a9f17f76c7)

I spent a couple hours but could not figure out. Can you please help. Thanks.

[glattercj]

Without more detail, I'm not sure what the error is, but it may be related to #207. Try using an earlier commit as noted in that issue to see if it fixes things for you while a resolution is being worked on.

[LThai32422]

Glattercj, thanks for your response. This is the output. Hope you can help me out. Thanks.

root@sceptre:~# phenix image build ubuntu -o /phenix -c -x
INFO vmdb2 version 0.13.2+git starts
DEBUG sys.argv: ['vmdb2', '/phenix/ubuntu.vmdb', '--output', '/phenix/ubuntu', '--rootfs-tarball', '/phenix/ubuntu.tar', '-v', '--log', 'stderr']
DEBUG current working directory: /opt/phenix
DEBUG uid: 0
DEBUG effective uid: 0
DEBUG gid: 0
DEBUG effective gid: 0
DEBUG environment variables:
DEBUG environment: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DEBUG environment: HOSTNAME=sos
DEBUG environment: TERM=xterm
DEBUG environment: TZ=Etc/UTC
DEBUG environment: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
DEBUG environment: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
DEBUG environment: PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=1
DEBUG environment: HOME=/root
DEBUG environment: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/_MEIi0GQFF
DEBUG Config:
[config]
output = /phenix/ubuntu
log = stderr
log-level = debug
log-max = 0
log-keep = 10
log-mode = 0600
dump-memory-profile = simple
memory-dump-interval = 300
image =
verbose = True
size = 1073741824
rootfs-tarball = /phenix/ubuntu.tar

DEBUG Python version: 3.6.9 (default, Mar 10 2023, 16:46:00)
[GCC 8.4.0]
INFO Load spec file /phenix/ubuntu.vmdb
INFO Running step: {'mkimg': '/phenix/ubuntu', 'size': '5G', 'format': 'qcow2', 'compress': 'true'}
INFO Calling <bound method MkimgStepRunner.run of <mkimg_plugin.MkimgStepRunner object at 0x73e251a773c8>>
INFO Exec: ['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/phenix/ubuntu', '5G']
DEBUG run external command: [['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/phenix/ubuntu', '5G']]
DEBUG STDOUT: b"Formatting '/phenix/ubuntu', fmt=raw size=5368709120\n"
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <mkimg_plugin.MkimgStepRunner object at 0x73e251a773c8>>
INFO Running step: {'mklabel': 'msdos', 'device': '/phenix/ubuntu'}
INFO Calling <bound method MklabelStepRunner.run of <partition_plugin.MklabelStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77860>>
INFO Exec: ['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mklabel', 'msdos']
DEBUG run external command: [['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mklabel', 'msdos']]
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <partition_plugin.MklabelStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77860>>
INFO Running step: {'mkpart': 'primary', 'device': '/phenix/ubuntu', 'start': '1M', 'end': '100%', 'tag': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method MkpartStepRunner.run of <partition_plugin.MkpartStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77828>>
INFO Exec: ['parted', '-m', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'print']
DEBUG run external command: [['parted', '-m', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'print']]
DEBUG STDOUT: b'BYT;\n/phenix/ubuntu:5369MB:file:512:512:msdos::;\n'
INFO Exec: ['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mkpart', 'primary', 'ext2', '1M', '100%']
DEBUG run external command: [['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mkpart', 'primary', 'ext2', '1M', '100%']]
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <partition_plugin.MkpartStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77828>>
INFO Running step: {'kpartx': '/phenix/ubuntu'}
INFO Calling <bound method KpartxStepRunner.run of <partition_plugin.KpartxStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77780>>
INFO Exec: ['kpartx', '-asv', '/phenix/ubuntu']
DEBUG run external command: [['kpartx', '-asv', '/phenix/ubuntu']]
DEBUG STDOUT: b'add map loop11p1 (252:0): 0 10483712 linear 7:11 2048\n'
INFO remembering /dev/mapper/loop11p1 as root
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <partition_plugin.KpartxStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77780>>
INFO Running step: {'mkfs': 'ext4', 'partition': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method MkfsStepRunner.run of <mkfs_plugin.MkfsStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77390>>
INFO Exec: ['/sbin/mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1']
DEBUG run external command: [['/sbin/mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1']]
DEBUG STDERR: b'mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)\n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'Discarding device blocks: 0/1310464\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08'
DEBUG STDOUT: b' \x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08done \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'Creating filesystem with 1310464 4k blocks and 327680 inodes\nFilesystem UUID: df51a9b5-3237-4557-9e0f-957ce0c9891b\nSuperblock backups stored on blocks: \n\t32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736\n\nAllocating group tables: 0/40\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08'
DEBUG STDOUT: b' \x08\x08\x08\x08\x08done \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'Writing inode tables: 0/40\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08'
DEBUG STDOUT: b' \x08\x08\x08\x08\x08done \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'Creating journal (16384 blocks): '
DEBUG STDOUT: b'done\nWriting superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 0/40\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08'
DEBUG STDOUT: b' \x08\x08\x08\x08\x08'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'done\n\n'
INFO Exec: ['echo', 'df51a9b5-3237-4557-9e0f-957ce0c9891b']
DEBUG run external command: [['echo', 'df51a9b5-3237-4557-9e0f-957ce0c9891b'], ['tee', '/tmp/grub-uuid']]
DEBUG STDOUT: b'df51a9b5-3237-4557-9e0f-957ce0c9891b\n'
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <mkfs_plugin.MkfsStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77390>>
INFO Running step: {'mount': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method MountStepRunner.run of <mount_plugin.MountStepRunner object at 0x73e251a777b8>>
INFO Exec: ['mount', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']
DEBUG run external command: [['mount', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']]
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <mount_plugin.MountStepRunner object at 0x73e251a777b8>>
INFO Running step: {'unpack-rootfs': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method UnpackCacheStepRunner.run of <rootfs_cache_plugin.UnpackCacheStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77ba8>>
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.run_even_if_skipped of <rootfs_cache_plugin.UnpackCacheStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77ba8>>
INFO Running step: {'debootstrap': 'focal', 'mirror': 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/', 'options': '--include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose', 'target': 'root', 'unless': 'rootfs_unpacked'}
INFO Calling <bound method DebootstrapStepRunner.run of <debootstrap_plugin.DebootstrapStepRunner object at 0x73e251a4a198>>
INFO Exec: ['debootstrap', '--variant', 'minbase', '--include', 'initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic', '--components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse', '--verbose', 'focal', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd', 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/']
DEBUG run external command: [['debootstrap', '--variant', 'minbase', '--include', 'initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic', '--components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse', '--verbose', 'focal', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd', 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/']]
DEBUG STDOUT: b'I: Retrieving InRelease \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'I: Checking Release signature\n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'I: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)\n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'I: Retrieving Packages \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'I: Validating Packages \n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b"E: Couldn't download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages\n"
ERROR Command failed: debootstrap --variant minbase --include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose focal /tmp/tmpycji71xd http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
b"I: Retrieving InRelease \nI: Checking Release signature\nI: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)\nI: Retrieving Packages \nI: Validating Packages \nE: Couldn't download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages\n"
b''
ERROR Command failed: debootstrap --variant minbase --include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose focal /tmp/tmpycji71xd http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
b"I: Retrieving InRelease \nI: Checking Release signature\nI: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)\nI: Retrieving Packages \nI: Validating Packages \nE: Couldn't download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages\n"
b''
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vmdb/app.py", line 108, in run_steps_helper
method(step, self.settings, state)
File "/tmp/_MEIi0GQFF/vmdb/plugins/debootstrap_plugin.py", line 47, in run
opts + [suite, target, mirror])
File "vmdb/runcmd.py", line 53, in runcmd
return cliapp.runcmd(argv, *argvs, **kwargs)
File "cliapp/runcmd.py", line 64, in runcmd
cliapp.app.AppException: Command failed: debootstrap --variant minbase --include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose focal /tmp/tmpycji71xd http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
b"I: Retrieving InRelease \nI: Checking Release signature\nI: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)\nI: Retrieving Packages \nI: Validating Packages \nE: Couldn't download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages\n"
b''
ERROR: Command failed: debootstrap --variant minbase --include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose focal /tmp/tmpycji71xd http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
b"I: Retrieving InRelease \nI: Checking Release signature\nI: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)\nI: Retrieving Packages \nI: Validating Packages \nE: Couldn't download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages\n"
b''
INFO Something went wrong, cleaning up!
INFO Running teardown: {'debootstrap': 'focal', 'mirror': 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/', 'options': '--include initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic --components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --verbose', 'target': 'root', 'unless': 'rootfs_unpacked'}
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <debootstrap_plugin.DebootstrapStepRunner object at 0x73e251a4a198>>
INFO Running teardown: {'unpack-rootfs': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <rootfs_cache_plugin.UnpackCacheStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77ba8>>
INFO Running teardown: {'mount': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method MountStepRunner.teardown of <mount_plugin.MountStepRunner object at 0x73e251a777b8>>
INFO Exec: ['umount', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']
DEBUG run external command: [['umount', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']]
INFO Running teardown: {'mkfs': 'ext4', 'partition': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <mkfs_plugin.MkfsStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77390>>
INFO Running teardown: {'kpartx': '/phenix/ubuntu'}
INFO Calling <bound method KpartxStepRunner.teardown of <partition_plugin.KpartxStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77780>>
INFO Exec: ['kpartx', '-dsv', '/phenix/ubuntu']
DEBUG run external command: [['kpartx', '-dsv', '/phenix/ubuntu']]
Load spec file /phenix/ubuntu.vmdb
Exec: ['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/phenix/ubuntu', '5G']
Exec: ['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mklabel', 'msdos']
Exec: ['parted', '-m', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'print']
Exec: ['parted', '-s', '/phenix/ubuntu', 'mkpart', 'primary', 'ext2', '1M', '100%']
Exec: ['kpartx', '-asv', '/phenix/ubuntu']
remembering /dev/mapper/loop11p1 as root
Exec: ['/sbin/mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1']
Exec: ['echo', 'df51a9b5-3237-4557-9e0f-957ce0c9891b']
Exec: ['mount', '/dev/mapper/loop11p1', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']
Exec: ['debootstrap', '--variant', 'minbase', '--include', 'initramfs-tools,net-tools,isc-dhcp-client,openssh-server,init,iputils-ping,vim,less,netbase,curl,ifupdown,dbus,linux-image-generic,linux-headers-generic', '--components=main,restricted,universe,multiverse', '--verbose', 'focal', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd', 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/']
Something went wrong, cleaning up!
Exec: ['umount', '/tmp/tmpycji71xd']
Exec: ['kpartx', '-dsv', '/phenix/ubuntu']
DEBUG STDERR: b'loop deleted : /dev/loop11\n'
DEBUG STDOUT: b'del devmap : loop11p1\n'
INFO Running teardown: {'mkpart': 'primary', 'device': '/phenix/ubuntu', 'start': '1M', 'end': '100%', 'tag': 'root'}
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <partition_plugin.MkpartStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77828>>
INFO Running teardown: {'mklabel': 'msdos', 'device': '/phenix/ubuntu'}
INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <partition_plugin.MklabelStepRunner object at 0x73e251a77860>>
INFO Running teardown: {'mkimg': '/phenix/ubuntu', 'size': '5G', 'format': 'qcow2', 'compress': 'true'}
INFO Calling <bound method MkimgStepRunner.teardown of <mkimg_plugin.MkimgStepRunner object at 0x73e251a773c8>>
ERROR An error occurred, exiting with non-zero exit code
phenix 2025/04/03 22:01:30 [fed234b5-a202-4f74-a947-2924a2fe7e3c] building image with vmdb2: exit status 1
Error: Unable to build the ubuntu image (search error logs for fed234b5-a202-4f74-a947-2924a2fe7e3c)
root@sceptre:~#

[GhostofGoes]

The error you're getting looks like the one caused by #207 . Did you try downgrading the version of phenix used, as detailed in that issue?

[LThai32422]

No i dont dowgrading phenix. I am running Ubuntu 22. I installed Phenix following the instruction from Sandialab github.
Should i use Ubuntu 20?

[glattercj]

In Step 6 of those instructions, change:

docker pull ghcr.io/sandialabs/sceptre-phenix/phenix:main

To:

docker pull ghcr.io/sandialabs/sceptre-phenix/phenix:01eea3e

[LThai32422]

Hi GlatterCJ,

I tried step 6 (pull prebuilt docker container, using: docker pull ghcr.io/sandialabs/sceptre-phenix/phenix:01eea3e
then went to step 7 > docker compose up -d
received the error:
....
=> => transferring context: 29.98MB 0.7s
=> [phenix stage-3 2/15] RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime && echo Etc/UTC > /etc/timezone 12.4s
=> CANCELED [phenix stage-3 3/15] RUN apt update && echo 'wireshark-common wireshark-common/install-setuid boo 750.3s
=> [phenix jsbuilder 2/9] RUN ["/bin/bash", "-c", "if [ -n $INSTALL_CERTS ]; then IFS=',' read -r -a arr <<< $IN 34.1s
=> [phenix jsbuilder 3/9] RUN npm install -g @vue/cli redoc-cli 322.8s
=> [phenix gobuilder 2/14] RUN apt update && apt install -y protobuf-compiler xz-utils 46.2s
=> [phenix gobuilder 3/14] COPY .git /phenix/.git 0.3s
=> [phenix gobuilder 4/14] COPY ./Makefile /phenix/Makefile 0.1s
=> [phenix gobuilder 5/14] COPY ./src/go /phenix/src/go 1.4s
=> [phenix gobuilder 6/14] WORKDIR /phenix 0.0s
=> [phenix jsbuilder 4/9] COPY ./src/js /phenix/src/js 1.1s
=> [phenix jsbuilder 5/9] WORKDIR /phenix/src/js 0.1s
=> ERROR [phenix jsbuilder 6/9] RUN make dist/index.html 375.2s

[phenix jsbuilder 6/9] RUN make dist/index.html:
0.949 (yarn install ; yarn build)
3.109 yarn install v1.22.19
4.474 [1/4] Resolving packages...
11.01 [2/4] Fetching packages...
68.19 info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
165.1 warning url-loader@1.1.2: Invalid bin field for "url-loader".
218.1 info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
255.0 info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
291.3 info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
326.5 info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
371.4 error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/rxjs/-/rxjs-6.5.4.tgz: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT".
371.4 info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/phenix/src/js/yarn-error.log".
371.4 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
372.9 yarn run v1.22.19
373.2 $ vue-cli-service build
373.3 /bin/sh: 1: vue-cli-service: not found
373.3 error Command failed with exit code 127.
373.3 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
373.4 make: *** [Makefile:12: dist/index.html] Error 127

---

failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c make dist/index.html" did not complete successfully: exit code: 2
root@sceptre:/opt/phenix/docker#

Could not start up the SCEPTRE docker containers.
Thanks for your help.