Ubuntu
linux-keystone package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1551419
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1551419

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Stephen A. Zarkos (stevez) wrote : Fix UUID endianness patch breaks cloud-init on Azure

On Azure, cloud-init relies on the system-uuid as based by SMBIOS a unique ID for a cloud instance. If this ID ever changes, then cloud-init will attempt to reprovision the VM.

This recent kernel patch in the Ubuntu kernel corrects the endianness for some SMBIOS fields, but also has the effect causing cloud-init to think that the system-uuid has changed: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-trusty.git/commit/drivers/firmware?id=3ec24c55be6c543797ba3ee9a227a5631aef607e

The impact is that cloud-init attempts to reprovision the VM, often causing the customer to lose access to their VM.