cloud-init uses openstack latest version due to decoding bug

[Scott Moser]

Line like this in the log shows the issue:
2018-09-12 10:36:25,462 - openstack.py[DEBUG]: Selected version 'latest' from [b'2012-08-10', b'2013-04-04', b'2013-10-17', b'2015-10-15', b'2016-06-30', b'2016-10-06', b'latest']

we're looking for a string in a list of bytes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: cloud-init 18.3-38-gd47d404e-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.17.0-9.10-generic 4.17.17
Uname: Linux 4.17.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
CloudName: OpenStack
Date: Wed Sep 12 14:15:16 2018
Ec2AMI: ami-00000131
Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME
Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: unavailable
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Server Team CI bot (server-team-bot)]

This bug is fixed with commit c75c582e to cloud-init on branch master.
To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=c75c582e

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 18.4. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

This is fixed in Ubuntu 18.10.
This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 18.4-0ubuntu1
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cloud-init (18.4-0ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - release 18.4 (LP: #1795741)
    - tests: allow skipping an entire cloud_test without running.
    - tests: disable lxd tests on cosmic
    - cii-tests: use unittest2.SkipTest in ntp_chrony due to new deps
    - lxd: adjust to snap installed lxd.
    - docs: surface experimental doc in instance-data.json
    - tests: fix ec2 integration tests. process meta_data instead of meta-data
    - Add support for Infiniband network interfaces (IPoIB). [Mark Goddard]
    - cli: add cloud-init query subcommand to query instance metadata
    - tools/tox-venv: update for new features.
    - pylint: ignore warning assignment-from-no-return for _write_network
    - stages: Fix bug causing datasource to have incorrect sys_cfg.
      (LP: #1787459)
    - Remove dead-code _write_network distro implementations.
    - net_util: ensure static configs have netmask in translate_network result
      [Thomas Berger] (LP: #1792454)
    - Fall back to root:root on syslog permissions if other options fail.
      [Robert Schweikert]
    - tests: Add mock for util.get_hostname. [Robert Schweikert] (LP: #1792799)

 -- Chad Smith <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:55:23 -0600

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3232