From 757f8c087e9a5f4c553472209b46232b70a36b55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: milan <mkovacik@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:34:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] avoid the instance start--state-fetch race

---
 ec2 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ec2 b/ec2
index 2a239cc2ba7..54f131a3b90 100644
--- a/ec2
+++ b/ec2
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ def main():
     res_list = res.connection.get_all_instances(instids)
     this_res = res_list[0]
     if wait:
+        # there's a race between start and get an instance state
+        import time
+        time.sleep(5)
         # wait here until the instances are up
         num_running = 0
         while num_running != len(instids):