Verified with 1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0 on Xenial:
+ sudo apt-get install -qq ec2-hibinit-agent
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76, <> line 1.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously unselected package ec2-hibinit-agent.
(Reading database ... 38529 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ec2-hibinit-agent_1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0_all.deb ...
Unpacking ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0) ...
Setting up ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0) ...
+ sleep 3
+ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hibernation/configured
404 - Not Found
404 - Not Found
+ service hibinit-agent status
● hibinit-agent.service - EC2 instance hibernation setup agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-12 11:53:46 UTC; 3s ago
Docs: file:/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README
Mar 12 11:53:46 ip-172-31-0-169 systemd[1]: Starting EC2 instance hibernation setup agent...
Mar 12 11:53:46 ip-172-31-0-169 /hibinit-agent[5933]: Instance Launch has not enabled Hibernation Configured Flag. h
ibinit-agent exiting!!
Mar 12 11:53:46 ip-172-31-0-169 hibinit-agent[5933]: Instance Launch has not enabled Hibernation Configured Flag. hi
binit-agent exiting!!
Mar 12 11:53:46 ip-172-31-0-169 systemd[1]: Started EC2 instance hibernation setup agent.
+ true
+ sudo apt-get install -qq screen
+ sudo apt-get install -qq ec2-hibinit-agent
+ sleep 3
+ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hibernation/configured
404 - Not Found
404 - Not Found
+ service hibinit-agent status
● hibinit-agent.service - EC2 instance hibernation setup agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-12 11:39:16 UTC; 15min ago
Docs: file:/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README
Mar 12 11:39:16 ip-172-31-11-52 systemd[1]: Starting EC2 instance hibernation setup agent...
Mar 12 11:39:16 ip-172-31-11-52 /hibinit-agent[1730]: Instance Launch has not enabled Hibernation Configured Flag. h
Mar 12 11:39:16 ip-172-31-11-52 hibinit-agent[1730]: Instance Launch has not enabled Hibernation Configured Flag. hi
Mar 12 11:39:16 ip-172-31-11-52 systemd[1]: Started EC2 instance hibernation setup agent.
+ true
+ sudo apt-get install -qq screen
+ screen -d -m top
ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-52:~$ dpkg -l ec2-hibinit-agent | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================-======================-============-=================================
ii ec2-hibinit-agent 1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0 all Amazon EC2 hibernation agent
+ sudo apt-get install -qq ec2-hibinit-agent
+ sleep 3
+ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hibernation/configured
true+ service hibinit-agent status
● hibinit-agent.service - EC2 instance hibernation setup agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-12 11:39:40 UTC; 15min ago
Docs: file:/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README
Main PID: 1727 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Allocating 4194304000 bytes in /swap-hibinit
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Swap pre-heating is skipped, the swap blocks won't be touched
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Running: mkswap /swap-hibinit
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Running: swapon /swap-hibinit
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Updating the kernel offset for the swapfile: /swap-hibinit
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Updating GRUB to use the device /dev/xvda1 with offset 346112
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: GRUB configuration is updated
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Setting swap device to 51713 with offset 346112
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Done updating the swap offset. Turning swapoff
Mar 12 11:39:40 ip-172-31-12-48 hibinit-agent[1723]: Running: swapoff /swap-hibinit
+ true
+ sudo apt-get install -qq screen
+ screen -d -m top
ubuntu@ip-172-31-12-48:~$ dpkg -l ec2-hibinit-agent | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================-======================-============-=================================
ii ec2-hibinit-agent 1.0.0-0ubuntu4~16.04.0 all Amazon EC2 hibernation agent