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Dragonfly PVE autodeploy can fail on slow machinesΒ #13

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@Zorlin

Sometimes when you do dragonfly install-pve to bootstrap a dragonfly install it can fail

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πŸš€ Deploying Dragonfly on pyrus...

πŸš€ Creating LXC container and installing Dragonfly...
  Container: dragonfly (ID: auto)

  β†’ Template not found locally, searching Proxmox repository...
  β†’ Found matching template: debian-13-standard_13.1-2_amd64.tar.zst
  β†’ Downloading template debian-13-standard_13.1-2_amd64.tar.zst to storage local...
  β†’ Waiting for template download to complete...
  β†’ Waiting for template... (5/300)
  β†’ Template debian-13-standard_13.1-2_amd64.tar.zst is available (10s)
  β†’ Creating new container 'dragonfly' on node 'pyrus'
  β†’ Warning: container 'dragonfly' not found for IP lookup
  β†’ waiting for container 'dragonfly' to get an IP and SSH (timeout: 300s)
  β†’ Warning: container 'dragonfly' not found for IP lookup
  β†’ IP assigned: 10.7.1.158 β€” now waiting for SSH
  β†’ SSH available on dragonfly (10.7.1.158) after 17s (4 attempts)
βœ“ dragonfly => provisioned
* Checking Dragonfly directories
* Uploading Dragonfly binary
* Uploading OS templates
* Writing Dragonfly config
* Installing and starting Dragonfly service
* Retrieving initial admin password
  ❌ Task 'Retrieving initial admin password' failed on dragonfly: checksum failed: /var/lib/dragonfly/initial_password.txt. sha512sum: /var/lib/dragonfly/initial_password.txt: No such file or directory
  ❌ Host 'dragonfly' failed: checksum failed: /var/lib/dragonfly/initial_password.txt. sha512sum: /var/lib/dragonfly/initial_password.txt: No such file or directory

❌ Jetpack error: Playbook parsing error: 1 host(s) failed

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  1. self-assigned this
    on Feb 20, 2026
  2. added theissue type on Feb 20, 2026
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