I think I understood what happened: 1. During the initial installation of the cloud image, the cloud-config script executes a dist-upgrade 2. Yesterday (2013.01.23) there was an update for upstart 3. Upstart has been upgraded during the initial setup of the image 4. This "deregistered" (sorry if it is not exactly the right term) the upstart service "cloud-final", which as consequence is never executed.
I'll close this report and will file a separate bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103739 Title: prepare-testbed times out - flag boot_finished not present To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+bug/1103739/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs