Whew. Now I'm relieved that this is not a *bugfoot*. After attaching the debugger one more time, I found out that the `AuthenticationException` was caused by the `ProfitBricksComputeServiceAdapter` [generating a password](https://github.com/devcsrj/jclouds/commit/1391384dd5d58e5ccbe91ca4f5fb8c0f63800fb8#diff-6af74fe6e33ae1d12faae140fee688d2L118), if none is provided. This doesn't make sense to snapshots.
The latest commit sets loginUser and password as null for snapshots, so that [no `LoginCredentials` is created](https://github.com/devcsrj/jclouds/commit/1391384dd5d58e5ccbe91ca4f5fb8c0f63800fb8#diff-6af74fe6e33ae1d12faae140fee688d2R241). ``` testSpawnNodeFromImage(org.jclouds.profitbricks.compute.extensions.ProfitBricksImageExtensionLiveTest) Time elapsed: 329.445 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.NullPointerException: no credentials found for node 81a0ee10-7c64-4129-bf8a-68c14afc8cd7 at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:253) at org.jclouds.compute.functions.CreateSshClientOncePortIsListeningOnNode.apply(CreateSshClientOncePortIsListeningOnNode.java:62) at org.jclouds.compute.functions.CreateSshClientOncePortIsListeningOnNode.apply(CreateSshClientOncePortIsListeningOnNode.java:40) at org.jclouds.compute.extensions.internal.BaseImageExtensionLiveTest.checkReachable(BaseImageExtensionLiveTest.java:167) at org.jclouds.compute.extensions.internal.BaseImageExtensionLiveTest.testSpawnNodeFromImage(BaseImageExtensionLiveTest.java:136) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:85) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:696) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:882) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1189) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:124) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:108) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ``` My question, what's the cleanest approach to set the credentials for the newly created image? Or should the [test method](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/compute/src/test/java/org/jclouds/compute/extensions/internal/BaseImageExtensionLiveTest.java#L134) be updated? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/929#issuecomment-191569462
