OVA: systemd service admiral_startup runs twice

[anchal-agrawal]

During OVA startup, admiral_startup.service seems to run twice.

journalctl snippet (no reboot):

Jul 17 21:25:47 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Admiral Startup Configuration...
Jul 17 21:25:47 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Hostname is null, set it to IP
Jul 17 21:25:47 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: CA, Certificate or key file does not exist, will generate a self-signed certificate
Jul 17 21:25:47 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: ........................................................................................................................
.......................................................................................................................++
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: ......++
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: writing new private key to '/data/admiral/cert/ca.key'
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: -----
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
Jul 17 21:25:48 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: ........................................................................................................................
....................................................++
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: ................................................................................................++
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: writing new private key to '/data/admiral/cert/server.key'
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: -----
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Add subjectAltName = IP: 10.160.148.251 to certificate
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Signature ok
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: subject=/C=US/ST=California/L=Palo Alto/O=VMware/OU=Containers on vSphere/CN=10.160.148.251
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Getting CA Private Key
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: unable to write 'random state'
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Copy CA certificate to /data/admiral/ca_download
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: creating java keystore with self-signed CA
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Certificate was added to keystore
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: [Storing /data/admiral/cert/trustedcertificates.jks]
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Enable admiral startup
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/admiral_startup.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/admi
ral_startup.service.
Jul 17 21:25:49 localhost.localdomain bash[809]: Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/admiral.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/admiral.serv
ice.
Jul 17 21:25:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Admiral Startup Configuration.

### second run below ###

Jul 17 21:25:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Admiral Startup Configuration...
Jul 17 21:25:54 localhost.localdomain bash[1219]: Hostname is null, set it to IP
Jul 17 21:25:54 localhost.localdomain bash[1219]: Use the existing CA, certificate and key file
Jul 17 21:25:54 localhost.localdomain bash[1219]: Copy CA certificate to /data/admiral/ca_download
Jul 17 21:25:54 localhost.localdomain bash[1219]: Enable admiral startup
Jul 17 21:25:59 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Admiral Startup Configuration.

A similar service, harbor_startup.service, runs only once.

Here are the systemd-analyze graphs for both services: systemd-analyze.zip

[mdubya66]

@andrewtchin what's the impact of this on the customer?

[mdubya66]

making high, needs triage

[andrewtchin]

No impact, harbor_startup is designed to run each time the appliance boots anyway

[andrewtchin]

Closing as fixed by #1300