"Headless Re-Configure WiFi" after PiShrunk For Ubuntu Server 22.04 on Raspberry Pi

[slowrunner]

I have created a Raspberry Pi image - "ROS2 Humble on Ubuntu 22.04 Server Jammy For GoPiGo3 Robots", and used "sudo PiShrink -p -v -z 32GB.img Distro2G.img" to shrink the image for distribution.

Using Raspberry Pi Imager v1.7.3 to write my image (with the setup option to set WiFi SSID/Password, userid/pswd, enable ssh, hostname, and local) creates a working system, but while cloud-init does copy the new SSID/passwd to /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml the content of the file is not used to configure the WiFi.

The system connects to the network SSID/password of the original image somehow.

I tried sudo cloud-init clean --logs before I shutdown the original image for shrinking, but that did not cause the new network-config content to be used on the redistributed image.

Any tips on making a redistributable headless configurable Ubuntu 22.04 Server image?

[Drewsif]

This sounds like an issue with Raspberry Pi Imager, not PIShrink as we don't mess with anything related to wifi. Unless they also use /etc/rc.local they should work together.

[slowrunner]

What I found to work is performing the following before the shrink:

• sudo cloud-init clean --logs
• rm /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml