uec-query-builds: error: unable to open /etc/cloud/build.info

[Mike Conigliaro]

Binary package hint: cloud-utils

The cron job at /etc/cron.d/cloudinit-updates contains a line like this:

28 21 * * * root uec-query-builds --system-suite --config /etc/cloud/build.info --output /var/lib/cloud/data/available.build is-update-available

However, /etc/cloud/build.info does not exist, resulting in annoying emails from cron every day:

Usage: uec-query-builds [options]

uec-query-builds: error: unable to open /etc/cloud/build.info

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Thank you for your bug report.
The easy work around is to disable the cronjob (sudo rm -f /etc/cron.d/cloudinit-updates)

I don't see this as important enough to SRU to lucid or push through the final freeze, but I will get to into Natty.
In a re-bundle for maverick (0.5.14+) you can configure which cloud-config jobs should run in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg . See an example of yaml syntax to do so in doc/examples/cloud-config.txt

For example if you had the following in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg, the 'updates-check' job would never run, and thus not write the cronjob.

cloud_config_modules:
 - mounts
 - ssh-import-id
 - ssh
 - grub-dpkg
 - apt-update-upgrade
 - puppet
 - disable-ec2-metadata
 - runcmd
 - byobu

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

we no logner use that cron job.