Pf9ctl Utility Fails With Segmentation Fault

Problem

While adding a node to the Management plane using pf9ctl prep-node seeing the following error:

pf9ctl command to onboard node

- Initialising host 2023-09-06T17:49:12.6909Z DEBUG Running command https_proxy=http://qcwebproxylb.xxxxxx.net:3128 bash "-c" "systemctl start unattended-upgrades"stdout:stderr:
2023-09-06T17:49:12.691Z DEBUG Started unattended-upgrades
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0xb04369]
goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/platform9/pf9ctl/pkg/pmk.PrepNode({{0xc0008ca2d0, 0x25}, {0xc000828390, 0x16}, {0xc000034ee0, 0xb}, {0xc000034ea8, 0x7}, {0xc000034ec0, 0x6}, ...}, ...)
/go/src/github.com/platform9/pf9ctl/pkg/pmk/node.go:140 +0xb49
github.com/platform9/pf9ctl/cmd.prepNodeRun(0x14636c0, {0xd32749, 0x8, 0x8})

The pf9ctl utility fails with segmentation fault if there is a problem related to the package installation from the internal repo. pf9ctl is using the proxy setting to access the customer’s internal repo which is causing this issue.

Environment

• Platform9 Managed Kubernetes - v5.6 and Higher.

Answer

This is a known issue, Platform9 team is investigating this. The fix for this issue will be available in PMK-5.11 release.

Additional Information

To know more details about this issue, please open a support ticket with the Jira id- PMK-6388.