© !?!? The script ran fine when I ran it manually post-boot - cloud-init choked on it during the once-per-instance run.
#!/bin/bash # © 2018 by ... ^(position/character 14) This is the killer !? Changed to 'Copyright', and it finally ran on instance first-boot. A user-data script with the same 2 first lines ran fine on an Amazon Linux 2 instance ... A thousand thanks for your insights and help ! On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 9:43 AM Noah Meyerhans <no...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 10:19:25PM -0600, Jim Freeman wrote: > > 2018-10-01 stretch AMI (no idea if this is a regression?) > > /var/log/cloud-init.log claims user-data was run, when it fact it was > not, > > with tracebacks and log messages (attached) leading me to think that > > failure is somehow getting mis-cast as success? > > Any confirmations of other failures/successes of user-data would be > > much appreciated ... > > It seems that there are some invalid characters in your user-data > script. Cloud-init is printing a message at WARNING-level severity > indicating that it can't run the script, and the following stack trace > explains why: > > > 2018-11-02 22:36:11,164 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed calling handler > ShellScriptPartHandler: [['text/x-shellscript']] (text/x-shellscript, > part-001, 2) with frequency once-per-instance > > 2018-11-02 22:36:11,170 - util.py[DEBUG]: Failed calling handler > ShellScriptPartHandler: [['text/x-shellscript']] (text/x-shellscript, > part-001, 2) with frequency once-per-instance > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/handlers/__init__.py", > line 103, in run_part > > payload, frequency) > > File > "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/handlers/shell_script.py", line > 43, in handle_part > > util.write_file(path, payload, 0o700) > > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1747, in > write_file > > content = encode_text(content) > > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 154, in > encode_text > > return text.encode(encoding) > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udca9' in > position 14: surrogates not allowed > > What's in /var/log/cloud-init-output.log after this failure? > >
