Cloud-init does not run from init, but runs when started manually

[Ricardo Duarte]

This happens on cloud-init form 12.10 and 13.04. Cloud-init on 12.04 works perfectly.
Cloud-init gets called by init, but does not run.
If I try to manually start cloud-init with the upstart scripts, the following shows:

# start cloud-init
start: Job failed to start

If I run /usr/bin/cloud-init init , everything works

If I the folliwing wrapper, everything works as well:

/usr/bin/cloud-init:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/cloud-init.real $1 $2 $3 $4

[Ricardo Duarte (rjtd21)]

Log file at /var/log/cloud-init.log is empty.
I'm using the latest ubuntu cloudimg images.

[Ricardo Duarte (rjtd21)]

More information:

Cloud-init works from upstart (and on boot) when I redirect the stderr output.

The wrapper script becomes:

/usr/bin/cloud-init:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/cloud-init.real $1 $2 $3 $4 > /dev/null 2>&1

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Can you give some more information on how you're "using the latest ubuntu cloudimg images" ?
Ie, where are you using them?

I'm not able to even start trying to recreate this on the info here.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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