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Failure to obtain DHCP lease
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# Bug report
Azure VM: Oracle 8.10 (Gen1 or 2 ) after update and reboot the following error is generated
259.660061] cloud-init[1122]: 2026-05-08 14:58:42,981 - azure.py[ERROR]: Azure datasource failure occurred: result=error|reason=failure to obtain DHCP lease|agent=Cloud-Init/23.4-7.0.3.el8_10.12|duration=252.77271795272827|interface=None|vm_id=7433b839-532f-4f53-9668-f688de6fdeac|timestamp=2026-05-08T14:58:42.979016|documentation_url=[https://aka.ms/linuxprovisioningerror
## Steps to reproduce the problem
Create new azure VM, image source Oracle 8.10
run sudo yum update && sudo reboot
then this error above is generated, it keeps happening for 5 minutes
The only way to fix the error was to downgrade cloud-init or exclude from updates
sudo dnf downgrade -y cloud-init-23.4-7.0.3.el8_10.11
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