On 07/17/2017 05:16 PM, Jan Grant wrote: > The box image should not include those files (it suffices to delete them prior > to packaging the image). This causes each instance to mint its own new > UUID, which in turn results in distinct client-ids being supplied by > systemd.
It does not seem to me that deleting /etc/machine-id and /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is enough to have each instance generating this on boot, you have to call dbus-uuidgen --ensure manually. Can you double check this ?