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This bug was fixed in the package pollinate - 4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04

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pollinate (4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #1621280):
    - pollinate:
      + revert revision r300, as this was the wrong fix to the slow
        pollinate problem;  as it turns out, it was the user_agent
        function, which was running apt-cache very early in boot, before
        the apt database had been created
      + as it turns out, we need the curl timeout options in order for
        curl to work properly and be resilient against issues with the
        network coming up early in boot
    - debian/pollinate.default, pollinate
      + fix a couple of bugs affecting how long pollinate takes, and if
        it actually completes successfully
      + dpkg -l is way faster than apt-cache, when there is no apt cache
      + wait a maximum of 10 seconds
      + only log to stderr if in an interactive terminal; otherwise,
        just log to syslog
        - this fixes the odd double-printing to /var/log/syslog
      + optimize obtaining version strings by saving one pipe per call
      + source /etc/lsb/release and use $DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION, rather
        than calling lsb-release (python, can be slow)
      + add -m (max-timeout) back to curl options;  removing this option
        has caused network failures in various strange ways
      + when network fails due to timeout, log accordingly
      + ignore cloud-init package not found;  it's optional

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 28 Sep
2016 14:12:37 -0700

** Changed in: pollinate (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: pollinate (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  pollinate can take a long time

Status in pollinate package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pollinate source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in pollinate source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in pollinate source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  * Due to code inefficiences, pollinate takes a significant amount of
  time during firstboot.

  * Customers expect minimal boot-times, particularly wrt. pollinate
  which is described as having an impact in seconds.

  [Test Case]

  * Boot an Amazon instance, e.g., and examine the systemd-analyze
  output with and without the fix.

  * Without the fix, pollinate will account for 15-60s of time. With the
  fix, that drops to ~6s.

  [Regression Potential]

  * While a large number of changes to pollinate:

   changelog         |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
   pollinate         |   54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
   pollinate.default |    2 +-
   3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

  the releases changes have been well-tested manually in yakkety and
  represent the next logical release for pollinate relative to what has
  already been SRU'd (precise upload currently is in -proposed)..

  * The highest likelihood of regression stems from possible behaviour
  dependencies on the old code, but that seems a) unlikely to be the
  case and b) fixable during the -proposed testing, if encountered.

  ---

  backport to xenial fixes in pollinate that address slow run times (see
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pollinate/pollinate/trunk/revision/325).

  To see the issue launch an AMI, and look at systemd-analyze blame.
  pollinate was taking anywhere from 12-50 seconds to run during first
  boot.

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