diff -Nru casper-1.426/debian/changelog casper-1.427/debian/changelog
--- casper-1.426/debian/changelog	2019-10-15 14:08:34.000000000 +0000
+++ casper-1.427/debian/changelog	2019-10-17 09:38:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+casper (1.427) eoan; urgency=medium
+
+  * Setup machine-id, because without it it seems like machine-id setup is
+    racy. LP: #1848404
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:38:07 +0100
+
 casper (1.426) eoan; urgency=medium
 
   * Just like in Disco, overlayfs squashfs is tripped up with an empty
diff -Nru casper-1.426/scripts/casper-bottom/25adduser casper-1.427/scripts/casper-bottom/25adduser
--- casper-1.426/scripts/casper-bottom/25adduser	2019-10-15 14:07:01.000000000 +0000
+++ casper-1.427/scripts/casper-bottom/25adduser	2019-10-17 09:38:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -138,6 +138,18 @@
 
 #systemd-sysusers.service fails to open /etc/.pwd.lock with kernel errors
 rm -f /root/etc/.pwd.lock
+
+# Ends up being corrupted on subiquity
 rm -f /root/etc/machine-id
+# it seems like without machine-id, machine-id setup is racy and
+# breaks dbus and hence the world and we need proc & sys, to setup KVM
+# based machine-id otherwise dhcp client-id will be unstable and will
+# break in CI
+mount -o bind /proc /root/proc
+mount -o bind /sys /root/sys
+chroot /root systemd-machine-id-setup
+ln -s /etc/machine-id /root/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
+umount /root/proc
+umount /root/sys
 
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