Doesn t look like those aren t installed available by defaul Rancher Users #rke2

Doesn’t look like those aren’t installed/available...

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 6:15 PM

Doesn’t look like those aren’t installed/available by default, but the VMs seem to be able to ping one-another without issue

hundreds-evening-84071

07/10/2025, 6:18 PM

Does the service start?

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systemctl status rke2-server.service

If it's not running?

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journalctl -u rke2-server.service

Have you looked at that output?

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 6:21 PM

Unfortunately

systemctl status rke2-server.service

returns that there is no service by that name (could not be found), and

journalctl

similarly reports nothing. I’ll run a quick

find

to see if that service exists to begin with. However, I should ask, should I be checking this on a specific node or should it be on all nodes?

hundreds-evening-84071

07/10/2025, 6:26 PM

are you creating RKE2 cluster from Rancher UI? or downloading the tar ball and running it?

hundreds-evening-84071

07/10/2025, 6:28 PM

the rke2-server service will be on all nodes • if they have all roles (etcd/CP/worker) • if they have etcd/CP role

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hundreds-evening-84071

07/10/2025, 6:28 PM

https://docs.rke2.io/install/methods

hundreds-evening-84071

07/10/2025, 6:29 PM

https://docs.rke2.io/install/requirements

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 6:36 PM

I’m using the Rancher API to create the RKE2 cluster in a Triton datacenter using a custom driver (again, works with Ubuntu just fine).

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 6:37 PM

We use the

/v1/provisioning.cattle.io.clusters

endpoint and pass a JSON dataset with all the required data needed to create the cluster.

creamy-pencil-82913

07/10/2025, 6:47 PM

If the services aren't present then the install is failing for some reason. Check rancher-system-agent service logs. If that is not present either then the cloud-init userdata script that installs the agent is not running for some reason. Make sure your image supports cloud-init.

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cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 7:14 PM

Thank you for the info! I’ll take a look around more and report back

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 7:20 PM

Quick report back: there is no

rancher-system-agent

service, but

cloud-init

seems to have completed running as a service:

Finished cloud-init.service - Initial cloud-init job (metadata service crawler).

However, I do see

sudo sh /tmp/install_script.sh

still running, and I just noticed that

sleep 5

was also in

ps -ef

output and has the parent PID of the

install_script.sh

process. Looks like

sleep 5

is in the

download_rancher_file

function, so it’s failing to download (or at least validate that it can download) with this curl:

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curl $noproxy --connect-timeout 60 --max-time 300 --write-out "%{http_code}\n" ${CURL_BIN_CAFLAG} ${CURL_LOG} -fL "${url}" -o "${CATTLE_AGENT_BIN_PREFIX}/bin/${name}"

I’ll check this out and see if I can find out what it’s doing.

cool-jewelry-75805

07/10/2025, 7:22 PM

Quick

while true; do ps -ef | grep curl | grep -v grep; done

shows that it’s trying to connect to

"${rancher}/healthz"

and DNS isn’t resolving the domain. Thank you for the tips and being a sounding board while I try to look at and explain stuff, hah. I’ll report back again if I figure out what I need to do to resolve this.

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