[Bug 1103881] [NEW] cloud-final is never executed if upstart is upgraded during initialization of the image

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Public bug reported:

During a cloud image initialization, the service cloud-final is never
executed if the cloud-config script contains an "upgrade" directive and
upstart is part of the upgraded packages:

TESTCASE:
1. Download a cloud image from http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/raring/ with an outdated version of upstart (e.g 2013.01.23 - I saved this image, if you need it and it is not available from the mirror just ask)
2. Prepare a cloud-config script with the directives (example cloud-config script used by lp:auto-package-testing attached):

apt_update: true
apt_upgrade: true

3. Initialize the cloud image with this cloud-config script

EXPECTED RESULT:
Installation finish

ACTUAL RESULT
The service cloud-final is never executed and the flag boot-finished is not present.

cloud-init logs of a failed installation attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: cloud-init (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-1.5-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 24 09:08:19 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-01-31 (358 days ago)

** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug qa-manual-testing raring rls-r-incoming running-unity

** Attachment added: "cloud-init.log"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103881/+attachment/3497974/+files/cloud-init.log

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  cloud-final is never executed if upstart is upgraded during
  initialization of the image

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