No way of continuing/retrying when docker installation fails

[michiels]

I just came across the situation that apparently installing Docker failed from the custom source because of a timeout. In that case there is no clear path to retrying or continuing the installation:

root@ubuntu-1gb-ams2-01:~# source /root/.bashrc && intercity-server install
What is the hostname? (e.g.: intercity.example.com)
michiel.intercity.io
Hostname is set to michiel.intercity.io
1. yes
2. no
Do you want to use LetsEncrypt for SSL?
IMPORTANT: The hostname should be public and reachable for the LetsEncrypt servers.
The SSL certificate can't be generated if LetsEncrypt can't reach the domain!
no
---- Installing docker
2016-08-29 15:46:32 URL:https://get.docker.com/ [15330/15330] -> "-" [1]
modprobe: FATAL: Module aufs not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.0-34-generic
+ sh -c sleep 3; apt-get update
+ sh -c sleep 3; apt-get install -y -q linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic linux-image-extra-virtual
+ sh -c apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
gpg: requesting key 2C52609D from hkp server ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: key 2C52609D: public key "Docker Release Tool (releasedocker) <[email protected]>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
+ break
+ sh -c apt-key adv -k 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D >/dev/null
+ sh -c mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
+ dpkg --print-architecture
+ sh -c echo deb \[arch=amd64\] https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
+ sh -c sleep 3; apt-get update; apt-get install -y -q docker-engine
W: Failed to fetch https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo/dists/ubuntu-xenial/InRelease  Connection timed out after 120001 milliseconds
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Unable to locate package docker-engine
---- Downloading Intercity
Cloning into '/var/intercity'...
remote: Counting objects: 267, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (38/38), done.
remote: Total 267 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 224
Receiving objects: 100% (267/267), 54.27 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (136/136), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
---- Configuring Intercity
---- Building Intercity
/var/intercity/launcher: line 132: --version: command not found
---- Starting Intercity
/var/intercity/launcher: line 132: --version: command not found
---- Done

One solution would be to recognize that Docker is not installed and let the user re-run apt-get update && apt-get install -q -y docker-engine.

Another option would be to be able to "force rerun" the installation with for example intercity-server install --force option.

[jvanbaarsen]

@michiels Let's go with the option to check if docker is installed.

[michiels]

@jvanbaarsen Sounds good. a re-run of install will also not work, probably because there's only checking for /var/intercity to exist or not. I am now running update, which does work. Is that basically the same?

[jvanbaarsen]

@michiels Yeah sorta. Kinda depends if the bootstrap part worked. If that did not run, update will not work