12.04.2 cloud image boot halts at " * Starting execute cloud user/final scripts" when meta-data is absent [ OK ]

[Jeff Marcom]

For Quantal and Raring you're able to successfully boot the img file with kvm without supplying any cloud-config data. However 12.04.2 seems to require it as the VM will halt and never complete and display a boot prompt.

Expected Result: (Works in Quantal and Raring)

eneration complete.
Cloud-init v. 0.7 running 'modules:final' at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:29:23 +0000. Up 256.59 seconds.
ci-info: no authorized ssh keys fingerprints found for user ubuntu.ci-info: no authorized ssh keys fingerprints found for user ubuntu.ec2:
ec2: #############################################################
ec2: -----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----
ec2: 1024 2a:60:de:bf:8d:e9:5b:28:05:21:88:2f:26:bd:fd:1f root@ubuntu (DSA)
ec2: 256 be:d4:49:ba:c9:d8:ee:f6:d7:a9:29:2d:10:67:77:91 root@ubuntu (ECDSA)
ec2: 2048 d7:00:56:23:ce:ba:44:7b:a8:2f:35:e6:67:93:1e:a8 root@ubuntu (RSA)
ec2: -----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----
ec2: #############################################################
-----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY KEYS-----
ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBJO7zBwxMxfMJq7roVBrtTOqYtblMrTWr1nDvqniGtkcqQ87tIT37eMf0BwdwlS+eUh5aLKiel3qI4CKkINwfQo= root@ubuntu
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC+DeDjaXqVHGOs0+GDoVpilnoUkhAaocmbyNGaiXNAVNIpsIXlo7ZNkO4k6Jtdnqrkdr5MK11V1soVB9NKuPyLVy1e+h0q933LQU7JZFpTzb04kPzuyi/sohGaPhNaNAX3zv+EhPnltj7ApQn/eGQ8sn7+Os1IIsgfDmXjG5HLEIlodfs7iuAtAoKprlmRL08ed9ABG4LV7/G+b7ErKo07XVrsDvDVk8AqP41us3B46ZMRzcKavi0dYgurCPjti0nb5w9SooxjdpEby4gDug9MMALvoFBGYvWPWnffzWsEU9NjOTVeuzzo2U5o6XWupirTxEQMm28j1uXQbT4jXAqd root@ubuntu
-----END SSH HOST KEY KEYS-----
Cloud-init v. 0.7 finished at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:29:25 +0000. Datasource DataSourceNone. Up 258.57 seconds
2013-03-15 16:29:25,939 - cc_final_message.py[WARNING]: Used fallback datasource

Actual Result: (12.04.2):
 * Starting save kernel messages [ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI daemon [ OK ]
 * Starting automatic crash report generation [ OK ]
 * Starting regular background program processing daemon [ OK ]
 * Starting deferred execution scheduler [ OK ]
 * Starting CPU interrupts balancing daemon [ OK ]
 * Starting crash report submission daemon [ OK ]
 * Stopping save kernel messages [ OK ]
 * Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ OK ]
 * Starting execute cloud user/final scripts [ OK ]

Command used:

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm:tcg -m 256 -net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -drive file=/home/jeff/git_checkbox_dev/checkbox/scripts/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img.2,if=virtio -display none -nographic

[Yolanda Robla (yolanda.robla)]

Thanks for reporting this
Can you supply a log for the failure on 12.04 ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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