When I re-boot my CentOS 7 machine I get lots of error/warning messages like the following: ------------------------------ Jan 1 14:39:04 alfred cloud-init: 2016-01-01 14:39:04,351 - url_helper.py[WARNING]: Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [2/120s]: unexpected error ['NoneType' object has no attribute 'status_code'] ------------------------------ Re-booting with the current kernel, 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64, sometimes fails, I think because of this problem, although the previous kernel seems to avoid the issue. I've actually disabled cloud-init, but I'm wondering if there is a simple solution to the problem? Actually, I don't remember installing cloud-init; maybe it was brought in by some other package? It's not clear to me why I should need it; is it a necessary adjunct to libvirtd? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin