Comment 9 for bug 1856560

> If someone manually installs Ubuntu Desktop / Server using an installer,
> one should not be installing or using cloud-init as clearly, it will never
> complete without a correct metadata source present. And when it fails to
> complete, it re-attempts to reprovision the machine on every boot.

I'd just like to clarify something. The above statement is neither true
nor helpful.

cloud-init (since 18.04) does not run unless it is on a cloud or has cloud
platform metadata. It is perfectly fine to have cloud-init installed on a
desktop or a server that is not running "on a cloud".

In order to accomplish this, cloud-init is only enabled via a generator.
That generator ran 'blkid', and 'blkid' blocked indefinitely.