Comment 3 for bug 480048

This might be unrelated to euca-register, I get the same error with euca-describe-availability-zones:

$ euca-describe-availability-zones
Warning: failed to parse error message from AWS: <unknown>:1:49: syntax error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/euca-describe-availability-zones", line 106, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/euca-describe-availability-zones", line 102, in main
    euca.display_error_and_exit('%s' % ex)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/euca2ools/__init__.py", line 996, in display_error_and_exit
    dom = minidom.parseString(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1928, in parseString
    return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 940, in parseString
    return builder.parseString(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in parseString
    parser.Parse(string, True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 49