I verified this fix in my personal EC2 account using the 64-bit
instances in eu-west-1, us-east-1, and us-west-1.
# For each of these three groups, run the remainder of the commands
region=eu-west-1
amiid=ami-4fcfe43b
type=m1.large
region=us-west-1
amiid=ami-c12c7d84
type=m1.large
region=us-east-1
amiid=ami-bb12ffd2
type=m1.large
# Add an ssh keypair for the region
ec2-add-keypair \
--region $region \
ec2-$region \
> ~/.ssh/ec2-$region.pem
# Run an instance and connect to it
instanceid=$(ec2-run-instances \
--region $region \
--instance-type $type \
--key ec2-$region \
$amiid |
egrep ^INSTANCE | cut -f2)
echo "instanceid=$instanceid"
while host=$(ec2-describe-instances --region $region "$instanceid" |
egrep ^INSTANCE | cut -f4) && test -z $host; do echo -n .; sleep 1; done
echo host=$host
ssh \
-i ~/.ssh/ec2-$region.pem \
ubu...@$host
# Enable proposed and get fixed ec2-init
printf "%s %s %s %s\n" \
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-proposed main |
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ec2-init
# Let defaults be run on next reboot and reboot
sudo rm -f /var/lib/ec2/ec2-defaults.ever
sudo reboot
# Connect to the instance again
ssh \
-i ~/.ssh/ec2-$region.pem \
ubu...@$host
# Verify archive host matches $region and test accessibility
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
exit
# Kill the instance
ec2-terminate-instances --region $region $instanceid
Here is a sample /etc/apt/sources.list from the instance in us-west-1 (which
had the original problem):
deb http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main universe
deb-src http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main universe
deb http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main universe
deb-src http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main
universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main universe
** Tags added: verification-done
** Tags removed: verification-needed
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ec2-init selects us-east-1 mirror when running in us-west-1 region
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494185
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