0004089: UserData scripts are not executed on instances spawned from https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M26MMTT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004089	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2017-06-26 19:28	2017-06-26 20:23

Reporter	jsmallj	Assigned To	dookie
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2017.1

Summary	0004089: UserData scripts are not executed on instances spawned from https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M26MMTT
Description	UserData scripts are not executed from instances spawned from https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M26MMTT Kali Linux Rolling-8b7fdfe3-8cd5-43cc-8e5e-4e0e7f4139d5-ami-52356c45.3 Source aws-marketplace/Kali Linux Rolling-8b7fdfe3-8cd5-43cc-8e5e-4e0e7f4139d5-ami-52356c45.3
Steps To Reproduce	1) spin up instances from https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M26MMTT 2) Enter UserDataField #!/bin/bash echo "marker flag" >/tmp/markerfile.txt 3) start instance
Additional Information	userdata.txt is seen in /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt Yet, there is no cloud-init mode 'final', which would generally be expected when userdata scripts are executed ec2-user@kali:/var/log$ grep "cloud-init mode" cloud* cloud-init.log:Jun 26 19:23:14 kali [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: cloud-init mode 'init' took 2.693 seconds (2.69) cloud-init.log:Jun 26 19:23:44 kali [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: cloud-init mode 'init' took 8.931 seconds (8.93) ec2-user@kali:/var/log$

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-06-26 19:28	jsmallj	New Issue
2017-06-26 20:23	dookie	Assigned To	=> dookie
2017-06-26 20:23	dookie	Status	new => closed
2017-06-26 20:23	dookie	Resolution	open => no change required
2017-06-26 20:23	dookie	Note Added: 0006850

dookie 2017-06-26 20:23 reporter ~0006850	Cloud-Final is not required to provision the AWS image. Enabling the cloud-final service may work for your use case. The official docs are available here: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/boot.html#final You can also modify the configuration of cloud.cfg if required for your specific use case.