aws-status stops polling if network times out

[Jonathan Lange]

I was running aws-status last night and kept it running all night. During the evening, my network started dropping packets, causing any new connection attempts to time out (in fact, I had installed a temporary firewall).

When I woke up this morning, aws-status said I had six running instances, whereas Amazon said I had only one running instance. Emailed feedback from the instances themselves said they had shut down at some point during the evening.

And, aws-status had left this traceback on the console:

Unhandled error in Deferred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 992, in connectionFailed
    self.factory.clientConnectionFailed(self, reason)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/web/client.py", line 314, in clientConnectionFailed
    self.deferred.errback(reason)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 269, in errback
    self._startRunCallbacks(fail)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 312, in _startRunCallbacks
    self._runCallbacks()
--- <exception caught here> ---
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 328, in _runCallbacks
    self.result = callback(self.result, *args, **kw)
  File "/home/jml/src/txaws/txaws/client/gui/gtk.py", line 83, in errorit
    print error.value, error.value.response
exceptions.AttributeError: 'TimeoutError' object has no attribute 'response'

And then when I hit Ctrl-C:
^CUser timeout caused connection failure.