Comment 0 for bug 676819

Attaching a volume to a "pending" instance claims success (via euca2ools, and the API) but never attaches to the instance. This may be a KVM only issue.

As its pretty easy to reproduce, I haven't attached much in the way of detail - let me know if you need any specific info.

Command Line usage, assuming i-307905AD is in the "pending" state - Also, this possibly only occurs very early (first 5 seconds) of the pending state. The same command succeeds if you wait for the instance to arrive at the "available" status.

$ euca-attach-volume -d /dev/vda -i i-307905AD vol-59820625
VOLUME vol-59820625

Eucalyptus: Version: 2.0+bzr1241-0ubuntu4
Euca2ools: Version: 1.2-0ubuntu11