Download operation failure

Exception retrieving agent manifests: [ProtocolError] /var/lib/waagent/GoalState.1.xml is missing.

[EricTendian]

I’m also running into this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 and while the workaround mentioned by @kailashms worked for most of my VMs, it doesn’t seem to work for a few of my newer ones. I managed to come up with this command as a workaround (run as root):

cp -a $(ls -td /var/lib/waagent/GoalState.*.xml | head -n 1) /var/lib/waagent/GoalState.1.xml

What this will do is copy the most recent goal state to GoalState.1.xml and preserve permissions, suppressing the error. I don’t know what kind of adverse effects this could cause, but it worked for my VMs. (As long as the goal state is recent, to prevent any significant changes increasing the possibility of error.) I’d like an official workaround to the issue if possible.

[kailashms]

@EricTendian @Shuanglu I too had a similar case with Ubuntu 16.04 and this is what i did to overcome the issue. #waagent --version à check the version #apt-get remove walinuxagent à to remove the waagent #apt-get purge walinuxagent à if not removed the above command, use this one #waagent –version à recheck again #mv /var/lib/waagent /var/lib/waagent_old à move the folder #apt-get install walinuxagent à install the waagent again #service walinuxagent status. and then check the waagent.log file. #tail -f /var/log/waagent.log.