James Falcon

@rjschwei , can you attach the results of `cloud-init collect-logs` to this bug?

> We have decided that no network configuration should be applied, the message at 2024-03-25 16:51:48,480, and then we rename devices and return from apply_network_config() That final log is part...

> This is really just a slightly different use case of the current hotplug code. How do you see it being at all different? Hotplug still doesn't handle when the...

> The upsides of this design over per-boot We still need both though. When is NIC is added while the machine is powered off, we need to know of its...

@ralph-mcardell , This section of the documentation is referring to providng a **filesystem** with meta data and user data used by cloud-init. One common way to use cloud-init is to...

@ralph-mcardell , sorry, I think I misunderstood what you meant. Yes, `fs_label` can be used to specify a different label to use when checking fs labels, but that is not...

> Did something change in /etc/cloud or /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/*cfg files to change this default setting? This ultimately is likely the problem we are seeing here. No config change needed. The python...

> do you think maybe some top level generic handlers in main.py might be useful to avoid errors like this? Perhaps. At the top level they'd have to be generic...

@CalvoM , I think you can do something like `systemctl restart cloud-final.service` while cloud-final service is running. Otherwise, `kill -5` the cloud-init process while it is running.