Comment 2 for bug 1532072

Hi,

Just got the same on Ubuntu Vivid EC2 image.

[ 106.998590] cloud-init[878]: 2016-01-25 11:11:34,600 - DataSourceCloudSigma.py[WARNING]: failed to get hypervisor product name via dmi data
[ 107.127859] cloud-init[878]: 2016-01-25 11:11:34,747 - util.py[WARNING]: failed of stage init
[ 107.534501] cloud-init[878]: Traceback (most recent call last):
[ 107.534891] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 497, in status_wrapper
[ 107.535193] cloud-init[878]: ret = functor(name, args)
[ 107.535489] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 264, in main_init
[ 107.535787] cloud-init[878]: init.update()
[ 107.536110] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 335, in update
[ 107.536404] cloud-init[878]: self._store_userdata()
[ 107.536713] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 344, in _store_userdata
[ 107.537005] cloud-init[878]: processed_ud = self.datasource.get_userdata()
[ 107.537292] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py", line 82, in get_userdata
[ 107.537585] cloud-init[878]: self.userdata = self.ud_proc.process(self.get_userdata_raw())
[ 107.537873] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/user_data.py", line 96, in process
[ 107.538161] cloud-init[878]: self._process_msg(convert_string(blob), accumulating_msg)
[ 107.538453] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/user_data.py", line 342, in convert_string
[ 107.538759] cloud-init[878]: data = util.decode_binary(util.decomp_gzip(raw_data))
[ 107.539047] cloud-init[878]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 86, in decode_binary
[ 107.539338] cloud-init[878]: return blob.decode(encoding)
[ 107.539623] cloud-init[878]: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 0: invalid start byte