Hi everyone,

It seems something is wrong with the Tor Cloud [1] instances [2]. My best guess is that the instances are failing to auto-update packages and are left in a state where tor is not running, new packages are not being installed, and the instances are not doing anything useful. I am not able to look into this issue until next week. Does anyone want to poke at it sooner?

The best ways to debug this would be:

* Set up a Tor Cloud instance (open all the right ports and make sure you have a set of SSH keys for it), connect to it and look through the logs. I'm guessing the package update process is waiting for user input or something similar.

* Set up an Ubuntu cloud instance and go through the Tor Cloud setup [3] manually to see when/if something breaks.

[1]: https://cloud.torproject.org/ [2]: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#cloudbridges [3]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-cloud.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/ec2-prep.sh