Comment 0 for bug 800824

running an ubuntu cloud image under lxc will time out on network.

There has been lots of discussion on this, most recently in IRC on ubuntu-cloud [1].
From memory, this is due to virtual-filesystems coming up after mounted=/ on lxc. Because of that udev does not start, which means the network device event never occurs which would bring up the network. The result is that the instance boots, but times out for 70 seconds, and cloud-init doesn't do anything.

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[1] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/06/22/%23ubuntu-cloud.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: cloud-init 0.6.1-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.0-1.2-virtual 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-virtual x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 22 18:22:29 2011
Ec2AMI: ami-0a768e63
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1b
Ec2InstanceType: t1.micro
Ec2Kernel: aki-427d952b
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)