EC2 AMIs will be available from snapshot builds

[Philip M. Gollucci]

You need to assign an EIP w/ the default images so it has an outbound route.

I make my own so I don't need to do this in my VPC.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Collin Forbes <collin.forbes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:12:26PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> > On 06/16/15 11:47, Collin Forbes wrote:
> > >
> > > I was seeing this with ami-53fcb763 over the weekend. That one isn't a
> > > even a snapshot release. It's the AMI for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE for
> current
> > > generation instances on us-west-2. I was trying to use t2.small and
> > > t2.medium instances and had the same behavior.
> >
> > Works for me... takes about 5 minutes before you can SSH in though,
> since the
> > image downloads security patches first.
>
> I've attached a copy/paste from the system log of an instance I just
> tried launching.  It was a t2.small with ami-53fcb763 (10.1-RELEASE)
>
> I have a note about behavior in the middle of the log. It seems to hang at:
>
>     freebsd-update: Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... failed.
>
> I waited about 15 minutes and then gave it a reboot command from the AWS
> console. The remaining lines appeared in the log after that. However, the
> instance is not accessible after the reboot and there are no other log
> lines indicating the instance rebooted.
>
> --
> Collin Forbes    collin.forbes at gmail.com
>
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