[ubuntu-cloud] Unable to contact metadata service

[Peter Matulis]

Hi, I'm running a simple all-Lucid 2-machine cloud (frontend and node).
 The frontend is a KVM guest.  The problem is that after booting an
instance I cannot contact it via ICMP or SSH.  According to
euca-get-console-output:

2011-03-01 15:00:11,341 - DataSourceEc2.py[WARNING]: waiting for
metadata service at http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id
2011-03-01 15:00:11,343 - DataSourceEc2.py[WARNING]:   15:00:11 [
1/100]: url error [timed out]

The frontend can contact port 80 on 169.254.169.254.

Can this problem be due to the virtual nature of the frontend?  What to do?

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Peter