cloud-init collect-logs fails in impish

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

New impish instance fails like this:

cloud-init collect-logs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('cloud-init==21.2', 'console_scripts', 'cloud-init')())
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 920, in main
    retval = util.log_time(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 2454, in log_time
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 141, in handle_collect_logs_args
    return collect_logs(args.tarfile, args.userdata, args.verbosity)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/devel/logs.py", line 126, in collect_logs
    shutil.copytree(CLOUDINIT_RUN_DIR,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 557, in copytree
    return _copytree(entries=entries, src=src, dst=dst, symlinks=symlinks,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 513, in _copytree
    raise Error(errors)
shutil.Error: [('/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd', '/tmp/tmpxk4wjlsb/cloud-init-logs-2021-08-17/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd', '`/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd` is a named pipe')]

$ dpkg -l cloud-init
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-==========================-============-=========================================================
ii cloud-init 21.2-69-g65607405-0ubuntu1 all initialization and customization tool for cloud instances

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

PR at https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/985

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 21.3. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3895