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Login problem with Ubuntu cloud image 16.04 on VirtualBox

Asked by Raju on 2016-07-11

I was trying to use Ubuntu 16.04 cloud image xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vmdk [downloaded from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/]on VirtualBox but facing two problems:

1. Booting the VM stops indefinitely following the message "...random: nonblocking pool is initialized ". The same VM image on Vmware workstation takes to the the 'ubuntu login' successfully.

2. Since the cloud image doesn't have ubuntu password, I tried to pass this with "ro init=/usr/lib/cloud-init/uncloud-init ds=nocloud ubuntu-pass=ubuntu" as described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/Images/KVMKernelOptions, but it doesn't seem to work as the login doesn't accept the password.

Thanks for any help regarding the issues.

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2016-07-28
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

Did you MD5 test the file you downloaded?

Raju (rajustha2000) said : #2

Yes, I did MD5 test the file and it was ok.

Raju (rajustha2000) said : #3

A workaround of replacing console=ttyS0 from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub with net.ifnames=0 [proposed by Fryderyk Dziarmagowski (freddix) in another post https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1573095] solves the first problem at least temporarily! Hope for the permanent solution soon.

Still have no clue on the second one, which prevents from logging in!

Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : #4

"the login doesn't accept the password":
Do you get a "wrong username or password" error message, or what is happening?

Raju (rajustha2000) said : #6

It says 'Login incorrect'!

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #7

Have you tried one of the older images?

Raju (rajustha2000) said : #8

Yes, I tried older images also, but had the same problem.

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : #9

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