After doing a little more investigation, it looks like there are other distributions that are having problems with vsftpd running on AWS EC2 instances.
It sounds like it may be related to a kernel bug that affect Xen paravirtualized hosts. http://www.gossamer- threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1854156?search_string=%5BBISECTED%5D%20Linux%203.12.7%20introduces%20page%20map%20handling%20regression;#1854156 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313450 Title: Unable to start vsftpd on Ubuntu 14.04 (Amazon/EC2) with default configuration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vsftpd/+bug/1313450/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
