Comment 13 for bug 566793

Something is definitely broken.
After the above eventually returned (17 minutes, a failed command and more timeouts like above on the screen), I restarted eucalyptus and tried again
$ sudo restart eucalyptus
# wait
$ sh -c 'date; time euca-get-console-output i-431B08E0; date' 2>&1 | tee out.first
$ tail -n 3 out.first
run-parts --regex .* /var/lib/cloud/data/scripts
0.15user 0.03system 0:00.47elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 55040maxresident)k
8inputs+0outputs (0major+8338minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Fri May 28 10:17:49 CDT 2010

# no try again
$ sh -c 'date; time euca-get-console-output i-431B08E0; date' 2>&1 | tee out.second

That showed the same issue as above.