"Setting oauth clockskew" messages on booting node; slows down boot

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as [LP: #1311700](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1311700)

Launchpad details

affected_projects = ['maas']

assignee = None

assignee_name = None

date_closed = None

date_created = 2014-04-23T14:29:24.949995+00:00

date_fix_committed = None

date_fix_released = None

id = 1311700

importance = low

is_complete = False

lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1311700

milestone = None

owner = julian-edwards

owner_name = Julian Edwards

private = False

status = triaged

submitter = rodsmith

submitter_name = Rod Smith

tags = []

duplicates = []

_Launchpad user **Rod Smith(rodsmith)** wrote on 2014-04-23T14:29:24.949995+00:00_

On booting nodes for enlistment, commissioning, and starting, I sometimes see repeated errors like this:

2014-04-23 14:15:50,622 - DataSourceMAAS.py[WARNING]: Setting oauth clockskew to -2

(See attached screen shot, too.) These scroll by, once every second or so, for about a minute before the node continues booting. Although a minute here or there isn't all THAT big of a deal, it would be nice to see this delay go away, particularly for occasions when I have to repeatedly test a node.

Here's my version information:

$ dpkg -l '*maas*'|cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================================-===================================================-============-===============================================================================
ii maas 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server all-in-one metapackage
ii maas-cli 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS command line API tool
ii maas-cluster-controller 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server cluster controller
ii maas-common 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server common files
ii maas-dhcp 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS DHCP server
ii maas-dns 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS DNS server
ii maas-region-controller 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server complete region controller
ii maas-region-controller-min 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS Server minimum region controller
ii python-django-maas 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server Django web framework
ii python-maas-client 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS python API client
ii python-maas-provisioningserver 1.5+bzr2252-0ubuntu1 all MAAS server provisioning libraries