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[Tom Haddon <tom.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 20:48 +1200, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Tom Haddon wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 17:00 +1200, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > [...]
> >>  * I extended ec2 to be able to start with a blank AMI such as those
> >>    provided by Eric Hammond at http://alestic.com/ and then either
> >>    bundle it or run tests on it.
> > 
> > Any reason for using these over the official canonical AMIs?
> 
> The current official canonical AMIs are flaky about setting up the SSH
> keys (about 1 time in 5 or so you can't log in to them).  smoser told me
> that he wants to make new ones "really soon", but until then the alestic
> ones seemed a better bet (the ec2test images we were already using were
> based on the alestic images).
> 
> The official ones also differ in details about how you log in to them
> (you log in as 'ubuntu' rather than root on startup), so some code
> changes will be needed when we start to use the official images.

I've filed this as bug 436473.

Thanks, Tom

> Cheers,
> mwh