cloud-init status reports 'running' after 'cloud-init init --local' run on commandline

[Chad Smith]

cloud-init status --wait blocks indefinitely after running 'sudo cloud-init init --local' on the commandline. This path is sometimes used after a user upgrades cloud-init and then executes a 'systemctl restart cloud-init-local.service' to avoid rebooting.

This is an uncommon/unsupported path generally, and generally in most cases we'd recommend that "systemctl restart cloud-init.service" is also run afterward, but it does represent as window during which cloud-init status --loing (or --wait) is lying and says that cloud-init is still running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: cloud-init 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-30.32-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CloudName: LXD
Date: Fri Aug 17 21:02:23 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
user_data.txt:
 #cloud-config
 {}