This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in 18.1. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New
Thank you. ** Also affects: cloud-init Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1742479 Title: setting manual_cache_clean causes warning Status in cloud-init: Fix Released Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: If manual_cache_clean is set in an instance, then ds-identify will write '# manual_cache_clean."' to its config (/run/cloud-init/cloud.cfg). cloud-init will try to load that file, and will WARN on it not being a dict. 2018-01-10 15:45:57,282 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed loading yaml blob 2018-01-10 15:45:57,283 - util.py[DEBUG]: Failed loading yaml blob Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 898, in load_yaml (allowed, type_utils.obj_name(converted))) TypeError: Yaml load allows (<class 'dict'>,) root types, but got NoneType instead python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.load("# manual_cache_clean.\n")' echo "manual_cache_clean: true" > /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/manual.cfg If you set manual_cache_clean in an instance, then ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: cloud-init 17.2-1-g4089e20c-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CloudName: NoCloud Date: Wed Jan 10 15:46:20 2018 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SourcePackage: cloud-init UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) user_data.txt: #cloud-config {} To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1742479/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp