I had seen this recently on a lucid instance, that caused a publish failure from the daily build scripts. That occurred on a m1.large of: us-west-1 ami-f5bfefb0 canonical ebs/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-amd64-server-20110201.1
** Attachment added: "console log of lucid instance with no metadata service" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/745930/+attachment/1957268/+files/lucid-amd64-no-metadata-console.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745930 Title: cloud-init timeout waiting for metadata service on EC2 -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs