See https://tools.taskcluster.net/groups/JeYiW-0ATPmxQ6LdkuFtNQ/tasks/T-Wkwo3_SiOR4Hii95weYQ/runs/0/logs/public%2Flogs%2Flive.log#L618

This is trying to run fetch-content on a packet.net worker and it fails because it expects os.environ to have TASKCLUSTER_ROOT_URL but it doesn't.

The reason is that packet.net runs an old version of docker-worker. Theoretically, it is a simple fix, but I won't have time anytime soon because of GCP.

I am going to close this bug because this is fixed in the image based instances.

Can you explain what you mean by image based instances? What I really want to know is if I can remove these env vars.

(In reply to Kartikaya Gupta (email:kats@mozilla.com) from comment #3)

Can you explain what you mean by image based instances? What I really want
to know is if I can remove [these env
vars](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/
7556a400affa9eb99e522d2d17c40689fa23a729/taskcluster/ci/webrender/kind.
yml#309-310,349-350).

We currently provision the instance from the ground up when it launches, we are working in creating a custom packet.net image (similarly to an AMI) to speed up instance startup. For now, it is not production ready yet.

Can we leave this bug open (retitled appropriately) such that closing it will allow removal of the env vars? Alternatively, if there is no plan to allow that removal, then I can just remove the reference to this bug in the yml file.

(In reply to Kartikaya Gupta (email:kats@mozilla.com) from comment #5)

Can we leave this bug open (retitled appropriately) such that closing it
will allow removal of the env vars? Alternatively, if there is no plan to
allow that removal, then I can just remove the reference to this bug in the
yml file.

Yes, sure, feel free to retitle the bug.

What is the state here? We have two references in tree to this bug.

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/webrender/kind.yml#328
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/webrender/kind.yml#368

[sending n-i to coop since wander and kats have n-i's blocked]

(In reply to Justin Wood (:Callek) from comment #7)

What is the state here? We have two references in tree to this bug.

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/webrender/kind.yml#328
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/webrender/kind.yml#368

[sending n-i to coop since wander and kats have n-i's blocked]

We should be cutting over to AWS for these tests very early in January (bug 1578460). It's the most important thing on Wander's plate when he returns.