Ubuntu on EC2

  1. Bug #407871
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 407871

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 407871] Re: ec2-init: Move wait for network to top level

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, David Favor wrote:

> Doing a fresh install of ec2-init hangs forever with "Waiting for EC2
> meta-data service".

My guess is that you're seeing bug 419306.

The simple workaround is to pass user data either by '--user-data x' or
'--user-data-file some-file'

It doesn't matter what the data is, but it has to be there.