Mystery SOLVED: changing the name of a VM with Debian WILL cause it to fail to boot (bug)

Apps and Virtualization
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I have a Debian12 VM. When I went into the GUI to change the name of the VM, it wouldn’t boot and dropped into the boot shell. When I changed the name back to the original name, it booted fine.

This is not a problem for other VM images.

I swear this is happening. It’s 100% repeatable.

What is going on here??? This is baffling. The only thing that should see the name for the VM is truenas. It can’t possibly affect whether the VM boots or not. What am I missing?

Watch this YouTube video I just made showing the problem!

Pretty cool, huh?

Doesn’t happen on other VMs, just this one.

If you can figure this out, you deserve a prize for sure.

It was a bug!!! when you change the name, they don’t preserve the NVRAM which causes some images to fail to boot.

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Unable to reproduce this. Spun up a test VM with the name “debian12” and renamed it to “debian13” and it booted up again fine. Did you see any errors pop up when booting? Also what version of TN are you using.

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I am using the latest EE release. I take it this is not the expected behavior.

Watch this YouTube video I just made showing the problem!

Pretty cool, huh?

Doesn’t happen on other VMs, just this one.

If you can figure this out, you deserve a prize for sure.

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That is weird. I would raise a bug ticket with iX with debug info.

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great. I thought it was weird too.

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I’m using ElectricEel-24.10-BETA.1

I’ll report it as a bug. All i get is the boot screen.

ix tends to punt on these when it can be reproduced.

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Seems like a minor issue that you can’t fully reproduce.

Not actually the latest release when you wrote either of those posts.
*shrug*