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		<title>Having a big prob with EC2</title>
		<dateCreated>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:39:42 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:39:42 GMT" ctSaves="11" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="858" text="Having a big prob with EC2" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/03/03/havingABigProbWithEc2.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.41" versionServer="0.4" whenLastSave="Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:38:21 GMT">
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:31:51 GMT" pgfnum="5274" text="I have an AMI that I created from Windows server AMI, that's used in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ec2.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;EC2 for Poets&lt;/a&gt; tutorial. It worked really well at first. I had to launch a new instance a week or so ago, and waited for over an hour and it was still telling me it couldn't get a Windows password for it. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:36:30 GMT" pgfnum="5276" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/03/03/notAvailableYet.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/03/03/notAvailableYetSmall.gif&quot; width=&quot;322&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named notAvailableYetSmall.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:35:54 GMT" pgfnum="5275" text="In desperation I left it running overnight, came back to it 24 hours later, and this time it gave me the password."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:37:34 GMT" pgfnum="5277" text="Today I got a report from a user that he's seeing the same thing (though he hasn't waited to the 24 hours yet)."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:37:55 GMT" pgfnum="5278" text="I just launched an instance myself, at 3:15PM, and now at 4:40PM it's still saying no password. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:38:30 GMT" pgfnum="5279" text="I will, once I get one of these guys to launch, create a fresh AMI and hope that clears the problem. Whatever happened this is really bad. I assumed that the stuff inside the AMI didn't need to be backed up. Bad assumption! :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:39:28 GMT" pgfnum="5280" text="Any help or advice would be much appreciated. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:57:51 GMT" pgfnum="5281" text="Update: At 9PM still no Windows password. Posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=227650&amp;tstart=0#227650&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Amazon support."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:44:49 GMT" pgfnum="5285" text="Update: 7:45AM Friday, still no Windows password."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:33:48 GMT" pgfnum="5290" text="Update: 9:30AM, still no luck. Launched a second instance. Maybe this one will do better?"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:37:59 GMT" pgfnum="5291" text="Update: 3:40PM, got the password! :-)"></outline>
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