netlink error

Questions / Help
1

Hello,

i’m having restart loop on some machines with this message :

18:12:19
INFO Starting init (commit: 4413dd0)…
18:12:19
ERROR Error: an unhandled netlink error occurred: Received a netlink error message File exists (os error 17)
18:12:19
[ 0.748306] reboot: Restarting system
18:12:19
Virtual machine exited abruptly

This seems to affect some machines, even new ones, but not all of them. Is this a platform issue ?

Greetings,

2

It’s actually the same problem as the MPG one you reported elsewhere; there is ~1 single host in our fleet that missed some deployments last week. Can you share which app / machine this is? We can fix it right up for you.

3

i destroyed it and recreated it a couple times until it finally worked, so i no longer have the issue. Is it something that need a manual fix (or destroy/recreate) once it happen ? or something that should not happen again ? Because it happened 5 mins before my post, so after the MPG missing host fix.

I can try te redeploy some machines and try to reproduce if you need.

4

Would still help if you can indicate the machine ID / app ID. It should not happen again but wouldn’t hurt if I checked manually what was going on.

5

Thanks to grafana, here are 2 instance ids :

ERROR Error: an unhandled netlink error occurred: Received a netlink error message File exists (os error 17)

fly.app.instance
56835e24b5e118

fly.region
fra

fly.zone
e844

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fly.app.instance
91854d35f66368

fly.region
fra

fly.zone
e844

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6

Ok, yeah I can confirm these are the cases we have fixed. It should not happen again.