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intermittent failed boot for lucid ec2 image

Bug #494595 reported by Scott Moser on 2009-12-09

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-ec2 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Scott Moser
	Lucid	Fix Released	High	Scott Moser

Bug Description

I launched the 20091209 ec2 build in us-west-1 on i386 and the system did not come up. The system is not reachable via ssh internal or externally, and ping fails from other us-west-1 system on its internal IP.

console-output is attached, but not seemingly helpful. This bug was reported from another instance of the same AMI.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 9 16:44:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Ec2AMI: ami-033f6e46
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-testing-us-west-1/ubuntu-lucid-daily-i386-server-20091209.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-west-1b
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: aki-633c6d26
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-300-ec2 2.6.32-300.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-300.1-ec2
SourcePackage: linux-ec2
Tags: lucid ec2-images
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-300-ec2 i686

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2009-12-09:

#1

console-output of failed boot Edit (8.6 KiB, text/plain)
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

description:

updated

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2009-12-09:

#2

console-output of good boot Edit (10.3 KiB, text/plain)

Just for comparison, here is console output of good boot.
Note, the ureadahead message seems to just be a red herring as it appears in both.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2009-12-09:

#3

Note: A 'ec2-reboot-instances' for the failed boot's instance id brought the system up.

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) on 2009-12-10

tags:

added: iso-testing

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2009-12-10:

#4

I get this as well it only seems to affect us-west-1.

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2009-12-10:

#5

console-output Edit (8.4 KiB, text/plain)

Thierry Carrez (ttx) on 2009-12-11

Changed in linux-ec2 (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2009-12-11:

#6

The idea popped into my head that this is not kernel related. I think its more likely related to upstart and order of ssh and/or ec2-init running.

I plan on looking some more at this today.

Thierry Carrez (ttx) on 2009-12-18

Changed in linux-ec2 (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee:	nobody → smoser (scott-moser)
assignee:	smoser (scott-moser) → nobody
assignee:	nobody → Scott Moser (smoser)

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Adam Klobukowski (adamklobukowski) wrote on 2010-01-16:

#7

Is there any solution? This problem makes my system unusable.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2010-01-17:

#8

Adam, have you seen this on the alpha2 release ? In my ~ 100 boots in testing it, I never saw this issue.

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Adam Klobukowski (adamklobukowski) wrote on 2010-01-17:

#9

I have lucid updated to current, and bootup stops just after udev. Some I could boot by booting into recovery mode and starting gdm manually, but now I do not get to recovery menu :(

(I keep it updated by chrooting from live-cd environment)

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Dr. Tyrell (dr.tyrell) wrote on 2010-01-17:

#10

This started happening to me last night after update. I also ride the bleeding edge Lucid repos.

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Dr. Tyrell (dr.tyrell) wrote on 2010-01-17:

#11

FYI,
I have normal Lucid x64, no ec2, and Athlon 64 II 4000+, Acer with IDE and PATA drives.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2010-01-17: Re: [Bug 494595] Re: intermittent failed boot for lucid ec2 image

#12

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Dr. Tyrell wrote:

> FYI,
> I have normal Lucid x64, no ec2, and Athlon 64 II 4000+, Acer with IDE and PATA drives.

Could you please open another bug for your boot issues?
This bug is really only to track the ec2 issues, which probably is not
related to what others are seeing. I'm sorry that the subject matched.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote on 2010-01-29:

#13

I've not seen this recently, as I noted above alpha2 booted over 100 times (total) across the 3 regions without a failure.
Marking it fix-released.

Changed in linux-ec2 (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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