This also happens with the (almost) current mainline kernel, from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/ Commit for this build was: ed8c37e158cb697df905d6b4933bc107c69e8936 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 618, in sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 614, in main get_uptime=True, func=functor, args=(name, args)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1875, in log_time ret = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 510, in status_wrapper atomic_write_json(status_path, status) File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 434, in atomic_write_json raise e OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/cloud/data/tmpMBxCza' [474208.150506] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90003661288 [474208.150524] IP: [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [474208.150536] PGD 1b6423067 PUD 1b6424067 PMD 1b255b067 PTE 0 [474208.150544] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [474208.150549] Modules linked in: xt_nat veth tcp_diag inet_diag xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat bridge stp llc xt_owner ipt_REJECT xt_LOG xt_limit nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables isofs dm_crypt raid10 raid456 async_memcpy async_raid6_recov async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq raid1 raid0 multipath linear [474208.150602] CPU: 3 PID: 6 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 3.15.0-999-generic #201404300254 [474208.150614] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [474208.150619] task: ffff8801b39d0000 ti: ffff8801b39c6000 task.ti: ffff8801b39c6000 [474208.150625] RIP: e030:[] [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [474208.150634] RSP: e02b:ffff8801b39c7c48 EFLAGS: 00010246 [474208.150639] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801af4e5510 RCX: ffff8801b2040000 [474208.150645] RDX: ffffc90003661288 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: ffffffffa013d4e0 [474208.150651] RBP: ffff8801b39c7c58 R08: 00000000f72af2f7 R09: 0000000002eb94ae [474208.150657] R10: ffff8801b2040070 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff8801af4e5480 [474208.150664] R13: ffff8801b2040000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [474208.150674] FS: 00007fb3072be700(0000) GS:ffff8801becc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [474208.150681] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [474208.150686] CR2: ffffc90003661288 CR3: 00000000f54bb000 CR4: 0000000000002660 [474208.150692] Stack: [474208.150695] ffffffff81763762 0000000000000001 ffff8801b39c7c88 ffffffffa00f2f53 [474208.150704] 0000000000000000 ffff8801b2040000 ffff88008c4e0000 ffffffffa00d1140 [474208.150712] ffff8801b39c7ca8 ffffffffa00ea67e ffff8801b2040000 ffff88008c4e0000 [474208.150721] Call Trace: [474208.150729] [] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x12/0x50 [474208.150744] [] __nf_ct_ext_destroy+0x43/0x60 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150755] [] nf_conntrack_free+0x2e/0x70 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150765] [] destroy_conntrack+0x9e/0xf0 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150775] [] ? nf_conntrack_helper_fini+0x30/0x30 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150785] [] nf_conntrack_destroy+0x17/0x20 [474208.150794] [] nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x78/0xb0 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150804] [] nf_ct_l3proto_pernet_unregister+0x1d/0x20 [nf_conntrack] [474208.150814] [] ipv4_net_exit+0x1d/0x60 [nf_conntrack_ipv4] [474208.150822] [] ops_exit_list.isra.1+0x38/0x60 [474208.150828] [] cleanup_net+0x112/0x230 [474208.150837] [] process_one_work+0x17f/0x4c0 [474208.150843] [] worker_thread+0x11b/0x3d0 [474208.150850] [] ? manage_workers.isra.21+0x190/0x190 [474208.150857] [] kthread+0xc9/0xe0 [474208.150863] [] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [474208.150871] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [474208.150877] [] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [474208.150882] Code: b7 58 12 66 85 db 74 46 0f b7 db 48 01 c3 48 83 7b 10 00 74 39 48 c7 c7 e0 d4 13 a0 e8 24 94 62 e1 48 8b 03 48 8b 53 08 48 85 c0 <48> 89 02 74 04 48 89 50 08 48 ba 00 02 20 00 00 00 ad de 48 c7 [474208.150936] RIP [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [474208.150945] RSP [474208.150949] CR2: ffffc90003661288 [474208.150957] ---[ end trace 7ab56606cd4d25a0 ]--- [474208.150961] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt