Cloudbase-init localscript exitcode 1003 won't restart when converting Windows Server 2019 to a DomainController

I’m stucked with this error since May 2022 and I didn’t find any solution. I also opened a discussion here ask.cloudbase.

It happens only with Windows Server 2019

I tried these configurations:

• windows server 2019 from official trial iso without any updates + Cloudbase-init 1.1.3dev16
• windows server 2019 from official trial iso without any updates + Cloudbase-init 1.1.2
• windows server 2019 from official trial iso WITH ALL updates + Cloudbase-init 1.1.3dev16

I sysprepped all of these configurations and used a Powershell script (via local scripts) to convert the OS into a DomainController.

In my powershell script I install required features:

Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools
Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-AD-Tools -IncludeManagementTools
exit 1003

This part of the script works as expected!

Then I create the forest and reboot again with exit 1003:

 $secureSafeModePassword=(ConvertTo-SecureString "SafePass1!" -AsPlainText -Force)
 Import-Module ADDSDeployment
 Install-ADDSForest `
  -CreateDnsDelegation:$false `
  -DatabasePath "C:\Windows\NTDS" `
  -DomainMode "Win2012R2" `
  -DomainName "testdomain.corp" `
  -DomainNetbiosName "TESTDOMAIN" `
  -ForestMode "Win2012R2" `
  -InstallDns:$true `
  -LogPath "C:\Windows\NTDS" `
  -NoRebootOnCompletion:$true `
  -SysvolPath "C:\Windows\SYSVOL" `
  -SafeModeAdministratorPassword $secureSafeModePassword `
  -Force:$true

  Restart-Computer -Force
  exit 1003

But this time, cloudbase-init returns an error as shown in log file:

INFO cloudbaseinit.init [-] Rebooting
ERROR cloudbaseinit.init [-] reboot failed with error 'Reboot failed: ''Arresto del sistema già pianificato.'': cloudbaseinit.exception.WindowsCloudbaseInitException: Reboot failed: 'Arresto del sistema già pianificato.'
INFO cloudbaseinit.init [-] Process execution ended with exit code: 0

The Italian message says “System shutdown already planned”.

Do you have any suggestion? Feel free to ask for more information, because I can reproduce this problem very easily. The problem is that I cannot convert Windows Server 2019 into a domain controller with Cloudbase-Init. This error happens EVERY TIME. I think that this is a big problem, because it makes cloudbase-init broken on Windows Server 2019 to create a Domain controller.

Is there a workaround? Thank you.

[ader1990]

Unbelievable, I fixed this problem installing Clodubase-Init 1.1.2 as LocalSystem (the checkbox available in the installer). Now it’s working on windows-server-2019

Hello,

We have not seen this error so far with the initial testing of the feature a while back: https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/blob/master/hot/Windows/ActiveDirectoryController/AD.psm1#L20

I am going to try to reproduce this error on a 2019 with latest updates and will try to raise the issue upstream, I think it s the flag that s not respected in the implementation.

Thank you, Adrian.

[Ks89]

Unbelievable, I fixed this problem installing Clodubase-Init 1.1.2 as LocalSystem (the checkbox available in the installer). Now it’s working on windows-server-2019