The build_list_parameters function only contains half of the fix applied by upstream commit 79f6a6cc7b2420440091. Specifically, line 78 refers to a function parameter that was renamed. More details at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647005 --- boto-1.9b/boto/ec2/blockdevicemapping.py 2009-12-16 17:21:40.000000000 +0100 +++ boto-1.9b/boto/ec2/blockdevicemapping.py.prefix 2010-11-18 21:59:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def build_list_params(self, params, prefix=''): i = 1 for dev_name in self: - pre = '%sBlockDeviceMapping.%d' % (pre, i) + pre = '%sBlockDeviceMapping.%d' % (prefix, i) params['%s.DeviceName' % pre] = dev_name ebs = self[dev_name] if ebs.snapshot_id: