[ec2-beta] Instances show no console output, do not respond?

[Eric Hammond]

Martin:

The way that EC2 is supposed to work the console output is updated a few 
minutes after booting, a few minutes after rebooting, and after termination.

If an instance takes longer than a few minutes to come up, the console 
output will remain empty or incomplete.


Eric:

About 25% of my Ubuntu beta AMIs have had problems booting quickly 
(small sample).

Here's a link to the thread on the Amazon EC2 forum where I describe my 
experience:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=27284

I haven't received a response from Amazon yet.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Martin Meredith wrote:
> I've generally found that any AMI run won't show console output until
> it's shutdown :(
> 
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:25 -0600, Eric wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've made 3 instances and none have shown any console output even
>> though they say "running" in ec2-describe-instances
>>
>> I can not ssh or get the server to respond to ssh ether.
>>
>> Is this a common problem? I've waited 30 minutes to see any output and
>> tried sending a restart command to no avail.
>>
>> I dont want to be paying for an instance that has no console output
>> and is unusable.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Eric
>>
> 
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