OK, maybe I was too quick on this one.
Just did a test with ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20161013 in GCE.
To reproduce, simply boot up a machine from that image and look at the
/var/log/syslog.
The hostname in the log says "ubuntu" instead of the real machine hostname.
Sending a testlog with "logger test
I originally saw this in /var/log/syslog of all my GCE machines that were built
on-top of ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20160610 and older.
See also this bug-report:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/290
I'm now running machines off the image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20160907
Sorry guys I think this is going the wrong way.
I know the service state recognition method from ansible very well because i
recently patched it...
Ansible running on ubuntu tries to get the running state form upstart if it's
an upstart script. (Not the case here)
On the next step it tries to ge
