cloud-init

Bug #1841182
Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1841182

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote on 2019-09-05: Re: [Bug 1841182] Re: cloud-init fails when rebooting EC2 i3.metal instances

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Dan Watkins wrote on 03/09/2019:
> OK, it looks like /var/lib/cloud/data/set-hostname ends up empty after
> the reboot, which is what causes the issue. We should handle that case
> gracefully, assuming that it isn't cloud-init that's causing it to be
> removed.
>
> To help confirm what's going on, are you able to capture /var/lib/cloud
> and logs post-failure (perhaps by attaching the root disk elsewhere)?

Here are the first-boot and post-reboot logs collected from an instance
that encountered the problem.