I am following the Rails App Cookbook and am facing issue with step 6 which involves provisioning an AWS instance. I received the following errors as output.
As explained in the guide, upon observing the provisioning failure, I executed vagrant up --provider=aws and received the following errors.
Here are the outputs of the dependency file, kernel gem file and the berks file where the errors are observed.
Upon inspecting the errors and the berks file, I tried modifying line 11 to version = "3.2.0", but that didn't make any difference as I can see the same errors.
Here is the output of the Vagrantfile.
I investigated further and found the following issue being reported Berkshelf Github page. I tried the solution suggested - ensure that the Chef-DK directories are at the front of my $PATH by applying the following command $ PATH=$HOME/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin:/opt/chefdk/bin:$PATH
I observed the following output at my system.
Could someone please suggest what could be the problem?
I found the solution to the problem. I was using the vagrant-berkshelf plugin. The correct plugin to be used is berkshelf alone. The issue was rectified after running the following commands:
vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-berkshelf
vagrant plugin install berkshelf
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I'm a beginner, I was trying to use the command "vagrant up" to set up a virtual machine, but I keep getting this:
Vagrant failed to initialize at a very early stage:
The plugins failed to initialize correctly. This may be due to manual
modifications made within the Vagrant home directory. Vagrant can
attempt to automatically correct this issue by running:
vagrant plugin repair
If Vagrant was recently updated, this error may be due to incompatible
versions of dependencies. To fix this problem please remove and re-install
all plugins. Vagrant can attempt to do this automatically by running:
vagrant plugin expunge --reinstall
Or you may want to try updating the installed plugins to their latest
versions:
vagrant plugin update
Error message given during initialization: incompatible character encodings: CP850 and Windows-1252
This is getting SO frustrating, I tried to find solutions for hours, tried using vagrant plugin repair, vagrant plugin expunge --reinstall, vagrant plugin update, reinstalling Vagrant SEVERAL times... Can someone help me here?
Vagrant failed to initialize at a very early stage
Is often caused by problems on your system, not by vagrant.
Your final error message is:
Error message given during initialization: incompatible character encodings: CP850 and Windows-1252
This problem is described here.
The solution given is: to type chcp 1252 on the commandline before you type vagrant up.
I could find this answer by searching on CP850 vs Windows-1252 vagrant
When you encounter a problem like this you should always just put the error message or keywords based on it in a search engine. Big chance someone else encounterded and solved the problem.
So I am having some issues with vagrant. I had initially tried to report this as an issue on the vagrant github issue boards, but they kept closing the issues without responding to them. I guess they decided I wasn't worth their time, or they were just behaving unprofessionally. Anyway, Here is the problem: I use vagrant with virtualbox, and a new version of virtualbox was recently released that is, unfortunately, not compatible with the latest vagrant installation.
However, the people at hashicorp have already updated the source code so that it is compatible with the new version of virtualbox, but you have to build the vagrant executable from the source repo (instructions here). So I followed the instructions and vagrant is working just like it used to.....when the only command I need to run is vagrant up. I should also mention ahead of time that, in order to run the vagrant dev build, the current working directory needs to be the root of the source code repo and the dev build can only be run using the following command with ruby:
bundle exec vagrant
With that being said, I needed to update one of my custom boxes, so I built a vm in the updated version of virtualbox and ran the below command
bundle exec vagrant package --base go --vagrantfile ../../vagrant/vagrantfile
After an extended period of time, vagrant spat back out the following error
The executable 'bsdtar' Vagrant is trying to run was not found in the %PATH% variable. This is an `error. Please verify this software is installed and on the path.`
I should also note that I use a windows machine and that this error never occurred when using the installed version of vagrant. At this point, I had posted the issue on github to get some input from the devs, but they (very unprofessionally) decided to ignore my requests for help and close the issues without providing any response. I used the GNUwin32 project to make numerous unix commands available to my Windows environment and added the folder to my PATH environment variable. I then run the same command again to create my new box and it works!! So then I upload it to the vagrant cloud and attempt to update the vagrant box that is stored on my system by running the following command:
bundle exec vagrant box update
Then, after waiting for a while, vagrant then spat this error out at me:
The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box
file you're trying to add is not corrupted and that enough disk space
is available and then try again.
The output from attempting to unpackage (if any):
C:\gnuwin32\bin/bsdtar.EXE: invalid option -- s
Usage:
List: bsdtar.EXE -tf <archive-filename>
Extract: bsdtar.EXE -xf <archive-filename>
Create: bsdtar.EXE -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
Help: bsdtar.EXE --help
Another error, and still involving this bsdtar tool. It does not appear that anyone else is reporting the issue I am running into because I think they are just waiting for hashicorp to release the new official installation, but, just to give you a look into their priorities, the version of virtualbox that was released which no longer worked with vagrant was released back on December 10. It has been over a month since and there is still no updated release.
So, I am hoping that someone out there might be able to find out why I keep running into these errors when trying to use vagrant's dev build and provide a solution. If not, then maybe if someone else is able to reproduce the issue and report it to hashicorp, maybe they will listen to someone else.
If you are on Ubuntu 20.04 then bsdtar was removed. Try to install libarchive-tools package.
$ sudo apt-get install libarchive-tools
I figured it out. My original hypothesis was correct: since vagrant is a tool that was built primarily to be run on linux machines, then vagrant runs in windows, the installation includes a mingw environment with all of the dependencies vagrant needs to function and which the installed vagrant executable imports into the console session when run. This why the dev build kept failing: because it was not importing this mingw environment. So, in order to fix the issue, I first cloned the vagrant source code repo from github and followed the instructions I linked to above to build the executable from the source repo. I then copied all of the files in the source repo into the following folder:
<hashicorp install folder root>\Vagrant\embedded\gems\2.2.6\gems\vagrant-<version num>
So, for me, the destination directory is C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\2.2.6\gems\vagrant-2.2.6
This directory is identical to the source code repo, and copying the source code repo to the above folder replaces the installation version of vagrant with the dev build. After I did this, running the vagrant commands which had failed previously normally (as in, without using ruby or bundle) worked. I hope this helps someone else out there who Hashicorp has decided is not worth their time.
Looking for some assistance with Vagrant, for what I believe is a Server Variable issue.
I have been trying all weekend to get any kind of Vagrant install up and running. I have followed:
Laravel Homestead installation guide, and
Sitepoint Homestead Vagrant VM guide.
I am using the default folders for install. Whatever I do, after installing Vagrant, I am unable to run 'vagrant up' or vagrant init' because the command 'vagrant' cannot be found (bash: vagrant: command not found). I am trying to execute from the folder with Vagrantfile in it, as suggested by Sitepoint.
I found this Stack Overflow article: Vagrant Command Stopped Working: Command not Found on Windows, but with the current version doesn't work as that bin folder is empty (note that the 'embedded' folder beside it is full, with several 'bin' folders down within the subfolder structure).
I am not familiar enough with Vagrant to know to which folder I should set the server variable, if indeed that is the right answer. It has to be simple, as no sites address this particular issue anywhere. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Win 7, Vagrant 2.1.2, Virtualbox 5.2.14
At the time of writing, Vagrant v2.1.2 is missing vagrant.exe in the i686.msi file.
There are two parts to this answer.
In GitBash, run commands with .\ preceeding the filename(ie .\vagrant up). See earlier comments for the credit for this answer.
Missing executable has been raised as an issue on Github. Without the executable, it, of course, was throwing a command not found error. https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/10026?_pjax=%23js-repo-pjax-container
Thanks for your support Rohit.
I am new to Vagrant, Laraval, and Varying Vagrant Vagrants. I am attempting to get this environment installed and operational. I am on Mac OS X 10.11.6.
I am following the instructions posted here.
Step 1 is install VirtualBox 5.0.x. Done that.
Step 2 is install Vagrant 1.8.5. Done that.
After installing Vagrant with the pgk file I downloaded... I created a directory at ~/vagrant. In that directory I did a vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 command. I then vagrant up.
Step 3 Install the vagrant-hostsupdater plugin with vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
When I try to do this, I get the following error:
Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins,
reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually
caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network
issues. The error from Bundler is:
There was an error while trying to write to
/Users/jonathan/.bundle/cache/compact_index/gems.hashicorp.com.443.68db9b3ad4be8461ccdecca2ae96d12a.
It is likely that you need to grant write permissions for that path.
Warning: this Gemfile contains multiple primary sources. Using
source more than once without a block is a security risk, and may
result in installing unexpected gems. To resolve this warning, use a
block to indicate which gems should come from the secondary source. To
upgrade this warning to an error, run bundle config
disable_multisource true.
Just to see if it made any difference, I changed the permissions on that file to 777. The same error occurs though.
I also get this error if I try to install any of the other plugins mentioned in the instructions on the VVV site.
I have no idea why this occurs, or what to do about it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Whilst I don't know the original cause of the issue, the came to light through my discussion (in comments) with Frédéric Henri.
For some reason the permissions on the ~/.bundle file had the owner set to root.
This was preventing the Vagrant plug-ins from installing. To correct this issue I changed the owner to my username.
From the home folder (cd ~/) use the following command, sudo chown -R <USERNAME>:staff ~/.bundle
This resolved the issue.
I am trying to run VirtualBox with Vagrant and the plugin vagrant-multi-putty. I am running Windows 10 and am following this guide. All the plugins and steps seem to work fine until I get to the “vagrant ssh” step. I get this error:
I did some googling and the recommended solution is usually to set the path correctly to putty.exe. You can do that like so:
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY
Even though the plugin seems to be installing right I can’t find the putty.exe file anywhere on my system. I tried downloading the binaries from here and manually adding them to C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY. Then I set the path like the example above. However, I am still getting the same error when I run "vagrant ssh".
Made the same misstake myself at first.
According to the installation instructions for https://github.com/nickryand/vagrant-multi-putty you are supposed to use:
vagrant putty
instead of "vagrant ssh"