Karmic image stuck in "Waiting for EC2"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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EC2 init scripts |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-ec2 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A Karmic server image in EC2 just got stuck in the following message during boot:
* Waiting for EC2 meta-data service
Rebooting it didn't help. The machine successfully rebooted, but then was holding in the same position again.
Some details:
AMI: ami-1515f67c
Zone: us-east-1c
Type: m1.small
Lifecycle: spot
Kernel/Ramdisk: The default ones for the image
Note that the instance was started as a consequence of a spot request, but that shouldn't play an important role in theory, since once the request is satisfied the instance is pretty much a normal one. Scott has successfully booted a machine under the same circumstances and didn't face the same problem, proving that the issue is at least intermittent, even if related to spot requests.
The console output is attached.
Marking this as 'invalid' for linux-ec2. This is well out of kernel (user space messages in the log). Unless there was a kernel network driver issue, which I certainly wouldn't expect here.