[Python-apps-team] Bug#710510: ec2-run-user-data run too early in boot process compared to ubuntu.

[Paul Tonelli]

 >Dear all,
 >
 >I noticed that there is also an init script upstream in 
sysvinit/cloud-init.
 >Would using it solve the problem ?
 >
 >Cheers,

I am afraid the bug #710510 is not linked to cloud-init.

We use images created with build-debian-cloud [1]. These images contain 
a few scripts acting as a minimal replacement for cloud-init. When I 
installed cloud-init, I wrongly assumed the "ec2-get-credentials" script 
in /etc/init.d came from the cloud-init package. It actually came from 
build-debian-cloud.

The described issue is linked to the scripts in build-debian-cloud and 
not cloud-init.

Still, the cloud-init package does not run user-data, as explained in 
bug #709173 [2]. We have successfully used the patch provided in the 
mail following the bug report of #709173.

[1] https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709173