I've been able to reproduce this with a 16.04 Amazon EC2 exported image on VMware vSphere 6.7. The VM boot fine after adding a serial port. We will try to reproduce the same workaround adding a serial console connection in OCI (which is the final target for that cloud image).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573095 Title: Cloud images fail to boot when a serial port is not available Status in cloud-images: Invalid Status in cloud-init: Invalid Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I tried to launch a ubuntu 16.04 cloud image within KVM. The image is not booting up and hangs at "Btrfs loaded" Hypervisor env is Proxmox 4.1 [racb: see comment 40 for minimal steps to reproduce using Ubuntu- provided tooling only] Related bugs: * bug 1016695: add console=tty1 to cloud-image kernel boot parameters * bug 1123220: cloud-image VM causes kernel panic if image is resized * bug 1061977: Machine fails to commission when console=ttyS0 is present on kernel opts * bug 1573095: Cloud images fail to boot when a serial port is not available * bug 1122245: booting from a cloud image hangs until virsh console is used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1573095/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
