Public bug reported: sudo cloud-init query --all fails on juju deployed units with the following trace:
On some platforms (juju deployed instances and various openstack platforms), user-data is compressed when provided to the instance. When deploying juju units in ec2 regions, user-data provided to the instance is gzip compressed. The cloud-init query command attempts to load, decode and read raw userdata content from /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt. In cases where the user-data is gzip compressed, decoding fails. Instead of reading raw user-data from /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt, cloud-init query command should read the already decompressed/decoded data /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt.i if present. ** Affects: cloud-init Importance: Medium Status: Triaged ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: cloud-init Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1889938 Title: cmd: cloud-init query fails for juju units with UnicodeDecodeError Status in cloud-init: Triaged Bug description: sudo cloud-init query --all fails on juju deployed units with the following trace: On some platforms (juju deployed instances and various openstack platforms), user-data is compressed when provided to the instance. When deploying juju units in ec2 regions, user-data provided to the instance is gzip compressed. The cloud-init query command attempts to load, decode and read raw userdata content from /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt. In cases where the user-data is gzip compressed, decoding fails. Instead of reading raw user-data from /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt, cloud-init query command should read the already decompressed/decoded data /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt.i if present. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1889938/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp