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Description of problem:
cloud-init cannot restart docker daemon, it freezes and will fail to finish.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 7.1
cloud-init 0.7.6

How reproducible:
Every time I run cloud-init script with - systemctl restart docker 
or without the re, it will freeze

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Spin up vm with image of rhel 7.1 with flavor m3.large on https://control.os1.phx2.redhat.com/dashboard and add a basic cloud init script, including - systemctl start docker under runcmd
2. log into the instance and run 'tail -f /var/log/cloud-init.log'

Actual results:
cloud-init freezes and fails to complete

Expected results:
restart/start the docker daemon

Additional info:
there is a github logged issue that is very similar: https://github.com/projectatomic/docker-storage-setup/issues/77

Wanted to make sure this was a highlighted issue as Openshift, as well as containers, are running into this issue.

Try running:

    systemctl --no-block restart docker

The problem is that docker can't start until cloud-init has finished running, so you've got yourself deadlocked.

That worked. Thank you. Is there any documentation on that?

> Is there any documentation on that?

Well, there's the systemd documentation, describes the --no-block option:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemctl.html

It looks like there is a blog post out there on this particular issue:

  http://dustymabe.com/2015/08/03/installingstarting-systemd-services-using-cloud-init/

Okay,

I appreciate it.