Comment 11 for bug 308530

I've verified this is fixed in http://ec2-images.ubuntu.com/karmic/20090811.2/ubuntu-ec2-karmic-amd64.img.gz (ec2-init 0.4.99-0ubuntu2).

/etc/init.d/ec2-init invokes 'ec2-wait-for-meta-data-service' as the first thing in its 'start'.

That program (/usr/bin/ec2-wait-for-meta-data-service) waits for the service, so the script will not move on until the meta-data service is up and running.

I tested that the ec2-wait-for-meta-data-service blocks on my local system using test environment set up from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Testing. I brought down the httpd daemon on the local system and ran ec2-wait-for-meta-data-service from inside. That blocked until I started the httpd daemon on the host system.

Please re-open if you believe otherwise.