An alternative explanation: Azure has a pre-provisioning system, whereby they'll partially boot a machine and then hold it in that state until a user requests a system which corresponds. This is implemented using the netlink socket you see: the fabric will reconnect that socket once it is ready for cloud-init to continue.
So: this logging is not unexpected, it indicates a pre-provisioned VM. Are you seeing an actual 3m30 wait happen when you launch instances, or is this report based only this logging? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925526 Title: Hirsute/Azure: cloud-init-local sometimes very slow to initialize To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1925526/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs