I'm re-opening this.
I just tested on karmic alpha-4 (ami-59b25230) , and the user-data-script functionality is now completely broken. To verify, either:
a.start an ec2 instance as defined above
b. simply run '/usr/bin/ec2-run-user-data'
The result of either is ('a' will show in /var/log/messages, 'b' to the console):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ec2-run-user-data", line 28, in <module>
content_type_handlers = { 'text/x-shellscript' : handle_shell_script,
NameError: name 'handle_shell_script' is not defined
I'm re-opening this. ec2-run- user-data'
I just tested on karmic alpha-4 (ami-59b25230) , and the user-data-script functionality is now completely broken. To verify, either:
a.start an ec2 instance as defined above
b. simply run '/usr/bin/
The result of either is ('a' will show in /var/log/messages, 'b' to the console):
Traceback (most recent call last): ec2-run- user-data" , line 28, in <module> type_handlers = { 'text/x- shellscript' : handle_ shell_script, shell_script' is not defined
File "/usr/bin/
content_
NameError: name 'handle_