[Bug 1840909] Re: ec2-hibinit-agent-ignore-powerkey.conf prevents EC2 instances from stopping normally

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This bug was fixed in the package ec2-hibinit-agent - 1.0.0-0ubuntu7

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ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu7) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Handle power button ACPI event with acpid (LP: #1840909)

 -- Balint Reczey <rbalint at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:16:15 +0200

** Changed in: ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  ec2-hibinit-agent-ignore-powerkey.conf prevents EC2 instances from
  stopping normally

Status in ec2-hibinit-agent package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Recently I've noticed a bunch of related issues with our AWS EC2
  instances:

  * stopping takes forever
  * terminating takes forever (probably because it tries to stop first)
  * lots of dangling nodes in our Consul cluster

  Today I decided to debug what was going on. At first I thought it was
  something that we do to our AMIs that was the issue, but after
  starting a vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 official AMI (0cdab515472ca0bac to be
  exact) I could replicate the issue.

  What happens is that you get "systemd-logind[816]: Power key pressed"
  in the journal when you issue a Stop action against your EC2 instance.
  However, after that nothing happens, until 300 seconds have passed and
  AWS terminates your instance instead. This means nothing exits
  cleanly, which explains why Consul nodes are left dangling.

  At first I thought it was a bug in systemd-logind, until I found
  /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/ec2-hibinit-agent-ignore-powerkey.conf,
  containing:

  [Login]
  HandlePowerKey=ignore

  Removing this file or uncommenting the last line fixes the problem.

  So in effect this package completely prevents the normal shutdown
  mechanism from working correctly. I'm currently working on a
  workaround for this for our AMI building process but an official fix
  would be nice.

  Just remove the file, it doesn't even come from upstream, but since it
  has been in this repository since version 1.0.0 I can't find anything
  in the git history regarding *why* it was added.

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