Hello, I have noticed the same issue on our recently released scaleway images with cloud-init enabled on Bionic running 4.15.0-24.
Testing with the 4.15.0-26-generic kernel in -proposed _DOES_ fix the delay issue on our image. I'm taking the liberty of marking the bug tested. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780062 Title: Cloud-init causes potentially huge boot delays with 4.15 kernels Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in cloud-init source package in Bionic: Invalid Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Bug description: Newer 4.15 kernels contain the following fix for CVE-2018-1108: 43838a23a05fb ("random: fix crng_ready() test") This causes cloud-init to stall for a potentially long time during boot (waiting for entropy I presume). Google reported boot delays of 75 minutes. I've tracked this down to the following import in templater.py which causes the delay: from jinja2 import Template as JTemplate Which is called when cc_update_etc_hosts is imported. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1780062/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp