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packer Troubleshooting Failing Builds docs-enterprise-packer-builds-troubleshooting Packer builds can fail in Terraform Enterprise for a number of reasons – improper configuration, transient networking errors, and hardware constraints are all possible.

Troubleshooting Failing Builds

Packer builds can fail in Terraform Enterprise for a number of reasons – improper configuration, transient networking errors, and hardware constraints are all possible. Below is a list of debugging options you can use.

Verbose Packer Logging

You can set a variable in the UI that increases the logging verbosity in Packer. Set the PACKER_LOG key to a value of 1 to accomplish this.

After setting the variable, you'll need to rebuild.

Verbose logging will be much louder than normal Packer logs and isn't recommended for day-to-day operations. Once enabled, you'll be able to see in further detail why things failed or what operations Packer was performing.

This can also be used locally:

PACKER_LOG=1 packer build ...

Hanging Builds

Some VM builds, such as VMware or Virtualbox, may hang at various stages, most notably Waiting for SSH....

Things to pay attention to when this happens:

  • SSH credentials must be properly configured. AWS keypairs should match, SSH usernames should be correct, passwords should match, etc.
  • Any VM pre-seed configuration should have the same SSH configuration as your template defines

A good way to debug this is to manually attempt to use the same SSH configuration locally, running with packer build -debug. See more about debugging Packer builds.

Hardware Limitations

Your build may be failing by requesting larger memory or disk usage then is available. Read more about the build environment.

Typically Packer builds that fail due to requesting hardware limits that exceed Terraform Enterprise's hardware limitations will fail with a The operation was canceled error message as shown below:

...
==> vmware-iso: Starting virtual machine...
    vmware-iso: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you want to
    vmware-iso: view the screen of the VM, connect via VNC without a password to
    vmware-iso: 127.0.0.1:5918
==> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: The operation was canceled
==> vmware-iso: Waiting 4.604392397s to give VMware time to clean up...
==> vmware-iso: Deleting output directory...
Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: The operation was canceled

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: The operation was canceled

Local Debugging

Sometimes it's faster to debug failing builds locally. In this case, you'll want to install Packer and any providers (like Virtualbox) necessary.

Because Terraform Enterprise runs the open source version of Packer, there should be no difference in execution between the two, other than the environment that Packer is running in. For more on hardware constraints in the Terraform Enterprise environment read below.

Once your builds are running smoothly locally you can push it up to Terraform Enterprise for versioning and automated builds.

Internal Errors

This is a short list of internal errors and what they mean.

  • SIC-001: Your data was being ingressed from GitHub but failed to properly unpack. This can be caused by bad permissions, using symlinks or very large repository sizes. Using symlinks inside of the packer directory, or the root of the repository, if the packer directory is unspecified, will result in this internal error. Note: Most often this error occurs when applications or builds are linked to a GitHub repository and the directory and/or template paths are incorrect. Double check that the paths specified when you linked the GitHub repository match the actual paths to your template file.
  • SEC-001: Your data was being unpacked from a tarball uploaded and encountered an error. This can be caused by bad permissions, using symlinks or very large tarball sizes.

Community Resources

Packer is an open source project with an active community. If you're having an issue specific to Packer, the best avenue for support is the mailing list or IRC. All bug reports should go to GitHub.

Getting Support

If you believe your build is failing as a result of a bug in Terraform Enterprise, or would like other support, please email us.