AVD Windows10 Intermittent failing for Communicator ended with: 4294770688

[garimakhulbe02]

Overview of the Issue

Packer build failing for error code 4294770688 (0xFFFD0000)

[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:24 packer-provisioner-powershell plugin: [INFO] 108 bytes written for 'uploadData'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:24 [INFO] 108 bytes written for 'uploadData'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:24 packer-plugin-azure_v2.2.0_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/23 00:31:24 Uploading file to 'c:/Windows/Temp/script-6741214e-d20a-1e9a-333a-a21f90faaaca.ps1'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:31 packer-plugin-azure_v2.2.0_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/23 00:31:31 [INFO] starting remote command: powershell -executionpolicy bypass -file "C:/Windows/Temp/packer-elevated-shell-67412259-0659-7bfd-11e5-cf6f26b919fb.ps1"
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 packer-plugin-azure_v2.2.0_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] command 'powershell -executionpolicy bypass -file "C:/Windows/Temp/packer-elevated-shell-67412259-0659-7bfd-11e5-cf6f26b919fb.ps1"' exited with code: 4294770688
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 packer-plugin-azure_v2.2.0_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 4294770688
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 ui:     azure-arm: Windows PowerShell
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] 217 bytes written for 'stderr'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] 145 bytes written for 'stdout'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 4294770688
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 4294770688
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 ui error: ==> azure-arm: The argument 'C:/Windows/Temp/packer-elevated-shell-67412259-0659-7bfd-11e5-cf6f26b919fb.ps1' to the -File parameter does not exist. Provide the path to an existing '.ps1' file as an argument to the -File parameter.
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 packer-provisioner-powershell plugin: [INFO] 145 bytes written for 'stdout'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 packer-provisioner-powershell plugin: [INFO] 217 bytes written for 'stderr'
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 packer-provisioner-powershell plugin: [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 4294770688
[64f6f026-0959-4788-bfe8-da8ebd42ae51] PACKER 2024/11/23 00:31:33 ui:     azure-arm: Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Reproduction Steps

This is intermittent failure. Currently 1 out of 7 build failing randomly on customize step. Customize steps are simple. Below is Azure Image Builder customize config.

{
      "inline": [
        "Write-Output '*** End customizer section: test5 *** '",
        "Write-Output '*** End customizer section: test5 *** '"
      ],
      "name": "test5",
      "runAsSystem": true,
      "runElevated": true,
      "scriptUri": null,
      "sha256Checksum": null,
      "type": "PowerShell",
      "validExitCodes": null
    }

Plugin and Packer version

Packer version: 1.11.2 [go1.21.12 linux amd64]
packer-plugin-azure_v2.2.0_x5.0_linux_amd64

[JenGoldstrich]

Hey Garima, just to update this one I know we talked about it in emails, but for context on the. public issue it's a bit hard for us to reproduce with just this information, and would take a bit more research than we can commit for this issue currently, if you could follow up with the full Packer template to reproduce this, rather than the AIB template, this would speed up debugging drastically. I'm also not familar with the customize step in AIB, does this just run the Packer powershell provisioner? Or does it do something else 🤔

[garimakhulbe02]

Sure. I will send you packer config. Customization in AIB is same as provisioner in packer. I will send you more details in mail. It seems like new AVD(after August release) version is giving Intermittent failures with elevated task. We asked Windows team to look at the issue, they have found anything and still investigating.