Configuration issue with the latest devstack on Windows

Ophir

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Feb 9, 2014, 9:39:27 AM2/9/14

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Hi,

I want to evaluate the edx and later contribute.
I am working on windows 7 64 bit, and tried to walk through
https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Developer-Stack

The vagrantfile is taken from

https://raw.github.com/edx/configuration/master/vagrant/release/devstack/Vagrantfile

when I try to do vagrant up, I get

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
[default] Importing base box 'focaccia-devstack'...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["import", "C:/Users/Ophir/.vagrant.d/boxes/focaccia-devstack/virtualbox/box.ovf", "--vsys", "0", "--vmname
", "devstack_default_1391112633_1391946834728_88780", "--vsys", "0", "--unit", "10", "--disk", "C:\\Users\\Ophir\\Vi
rtualBox VMs\\devstack_default_1391112633\\box-disk1.vmdk"]

Stderr: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Interpreting C:\Users\Ophir\.vagrant.d\boxes\focaccia-devstack\virtualbox\box.ovf...
OK.
0%...10%...20%...30%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR
VBoxManage.exe: error: Appliance import failed
VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not create the clone medium 'C:\Users\Ido Ophir\VirtualBox VMs\devstack_default_1391112633\
box-disk1.vmdk'.
VBoxManage.exe: error: VMDK: Compressed image is corrupted 'C:\Users\Ido Ophir\.vagrant.d\boxes\focaccia-devstack\virtua
lbox\box-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_ZIP_CORRUPTED)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Appliance, interface IAppliance
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "int __cdecl handleImportAppliance(struct HandlerArg *)" at line 779 of file VBoxManageA
ppliance.cpp

I must admit that I am a newbie to vagrant & VM.

Thanks,
Ophir

HanSu Kim

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Feb 19, 2014, 6:04:25 PM2/19/14

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I've seen some other issues with Windows and vagrant just not playing nicely together for some reason, is this on a fresh install of VirtualBox and Vagrant? Also a new release called gugelhupf is out, try now and see if you still get issues.

Yarko Tymciurak

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Feb 20, 2014, 12:22:14 AM2/20/14

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Have you read thru https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/Vagrant-troubleshooting#wiki-dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows ?

Ophir

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>
> Thanks, for this link however I still can not make it work.
>
> I had some error messages and I installed the latest versions of nodejs and npm to overcome those errors.
> I then came back to this post to check again and I worked through the steps provided in the link but I am still with the same error.
>
> The current status for the devstack is
> 1) The VM is up
> 2) I can connect with ssh.
> 3) I can't connect on other ports (e.g 4567), nor can't I see the studio or the main edx screen as I see in the fullstack

I will assume that you know the fullstack runs the servers as services automatically, and - per workflow section description in wiki - devstack does not: you must use some method to start a development server, such as

rake devstack[lms]

> 4) I tried to do vagrant provision and I get

I'm not sure what is wrong here, but something does not look correct.

For one thing, for devstack you should not have needed to install anything manually.

I suggest you consider starting over:

vagrant destroy
vagrant up

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

Best regards,
- Yarko

בתאריך יום חמישי, 20 בפברואר 2014 07:22:14 UTC+2, מאת Yarko Tymciurak:

Ophir

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Thanks Yarko

Per your advise I did

vagrant destroy

vagrant up

the result was

Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/release.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/run_watch_data.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/runone.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/setup.py ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/data ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/data/video ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/db ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/log ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/uploads ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/ws_migrations ...
FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry
localhost : ok=24 changed=14 unreachable=0 failed=1

Stderr from the command:
stdin: is not a tty

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Yarko Tymciurak

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If there are network delays or timeouts, this can happen.

Simply retry.

If 'vagrant status' shows running, then try 'vagrant provision', otherwise I believe 'vagrant up --provision' should do it.

Ido Ophir

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Thanks again, however still it does not work for me

Here is what I tried

1) I switched to another host computer.

2) I run the git command in cygwin64, according to

https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/Vagrant-troubleshooting#dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows

To type the commands, go to the root edx-platform folder and enter:

         # You need to run this from cygwin, not the Windows command-line (see above)
         git rm --cached -r . && git reset --hard
         git config --global alias.add-symlink '!__git_add_symlink(){ dst=$(echo "$2")/../$(echo "$1"); if [ -e "$dst" ]; then hash=$(echo "$1" | git hash-object -w --stdin); git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 "$hash" "$2"; git checkout -- "$2"; else echo "ERROR: Target $dst does not exist!"; echo "       Not creating invalid symlink."; fi; }; __git_add_symlink "$1" "$2"'
         git config --global alias.rm-symlink '!__git_rm_symlink(){ git checkout -- "$1"; link=$(echo "$1"); POS=$'\''/'\''; DOS=$'\''\\\\'\''; doslink=${link//$POS/$DOS}; dest=$(dirname "$link")/$(cat "$link"); dosdest=${dest//$POS/$DOS}; if [ -f "$dest" ]; then rm -f "$link"; cmd //C mklink //H "$doslink" "$dosdest"; elif [ -d "$dest" ]; then rm -f "$link"; cmd //C mklink //J "$doslink" "$dosdest"; else echo "ERROR: Something went wrong when processing $1 . . ."; echo "       $dest may not actually exist as a valid target."; fi; }; __git_rm_symlink "$1"'
         git config --global alias.rm-symlinks '!__git_rm_symlinks(){ for symlink in `git ls-files -s | grep -E "^120000" | cut -f2`; do git rm-symlink "$symlink"; git update-index --assume-unchanged "$symlink"; done; }; __git_rm_symlinks'
         git config --global alias.checkout-symlinks '!__git_checkout_symlinks(){ POS=$'\''/'\''; DOS=$'\''\\\\'\''; for symlink in `git ls-files -s | grep -E "^120000" | cut -f2`; do git update-index --no-assume-unchanged "$symlink"; if [ -d "$symlink" ]; then dossymlink=${symlink//$POS/$DOS}; cmd //C rmdir //S //Q "$dossymlink"; fi; git  checkout -- "$symlink"; echo "Restored git symlink $symlink <<===>> `cat $symlink`"; done; }; __git_checkout_symlinks'
         git rm-symlinks

  after the last command (git rm-symlinks) the prompt changed to windows prompt. (??)

$  git rm-symlinks
cat: cms/static/coffee/fixtures: Is a directory

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Ophir\Documents\edxnew\devstack\edx-platform>

3) I tried vagrant up  

...
TASK: [edxapp | writing  supervisor script] ***********************************
failed: [localhost] => (item=lms) => {"failed": true, "item": "lms"}
msg: Destination directory /edx/app/supervisor/conf.available.d does not exist

failed: [localhost] => (item=cms) => {"failed": true, "item": "cms"}
msg: Destination directory /edx/app/supervisor/conf.available.d does not exist



FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting


PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
           to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry

localhost                  : ok=30   changed=20   unreachable=0    failed=1






Stderr from the command:

stdin: is not a tty

4) ok, I checked status - running so I tried vagrant provision

...
TASK: [edxapp | Install edx-platform npm dependencies] ************************

failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "npm install ", "delta": "0:00:01.502748", "end": "2014-03-23 07:32:17.0
46578", "item": "", "rc": 1, "start": "2014-03-23 07:32:15.543830"}

stderr: npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script

npm ERR! error installing coffee...@1.6.1

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake'
npm ERR! You may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-23-generic

npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! path /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! message ENOENT, no such file or directory '/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:

npm ERR!     /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/npm-debug.log
npm not ok



FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
           to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry

localhost                  : ok=17   changed=6    unreachable=0    failed=1





Stderr from the command:

stdin: is not a tty

5) ohoho, this is the exact error that I had (on a different host computer), before I manually installed in the guest the latest versions of npm nodejs and coffe-script (1.6.3).

You actually advised me not to install manually, so I am back to square zero.  :-(

6) So I tried again the 
dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows

7) and again vagrant provision

TASK: [edxapp | writing  supervisor script] ***********************************
failed: [localhost] => (item=lms) => {"failed": true, "item": "lms"}

msg: Destination directory /edx/app/supervisor/conf.available.d does not exist
failed: [localhost] => (item=cms) => {"failed": true, "item": "cms"}
msg: Destination directory /edx/app/supervisor/conf.available.d does not exist




FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
           to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry

localhost                  : ok=27   changed=12   unreachable=0    failed=1






Stderr from the command:

stdin: is not a tty

8)  again vagrant provision (without dealing with the symlinks) and got the npm ERR! error installing coffee...@1.6.1, retried and got the same result as 

step 7

Any ideas?

Anyway I took the other advise in the 
dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows and installed  mitxvm-edx-platform-02sep13a.box 

and it is working indeed.

I will start playing with MIT version till I will manage to set the edx version.

Thanks,

Ophir

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

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Mar 23, 2014, 6:18:08 PM3/23/14

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hi Ophir

some of the errors you are seeing with supervisor have nothing to do with windows. i have them on my mac as well, when i try to install the devstack. in fact the devstack has been broken for almost a week now, and I have filed a ticket.

https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/issues/3029

Paul

HanSu Kim

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Hi Paul and Ophir,

the NPM errors were fixed recently as noted in that issues comments. You can try to do within the VM itself an sudo /edx/bin/update configuration master but you maybe better off doing a complete start from scratch vagrant destroy vagrant up

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

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Yes, it works fir me now, from scratch

Ophir

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tried from scratch
what I get is
vagrant up
...
TASK: [edxapp | install python post-post requirements] ************************
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx/repo.txt)
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx/github.txt)
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx/local.txt)

TASK: [edxapp | install sandbox requirements into regular venv] ***************
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt)
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx-sandbox/local.txt)
changed: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx-sandbox/post.txt)

TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | put sandbox apparmor profile in complain mode] ***
skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | Install base sandbox requirements and create sandbox virtualenv] ***
skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | Install sandbox requirements into sandbox venv] ***
skipping: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx-sandbox/local.txt)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/requirements/edx-sandbox/post.txt)

TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | put code sandbox into aa-enforce or aa-complain mode, depending on EDXAPP_SANDBOX_ENFORCE
] ***
skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | compiling all py files in the edx-platform repo] **************
failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/bin/python -m compileall /edx/app/edxapp/e
dx-platform ", "delta": "0:00:28.950727", "end": "2014-03-25 17:13:35.961246", "item": "", "rc": 1, "start": "2014-03-25
17:13:07.010519"}
stdout: Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/.bundle ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/.git ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/.git/branches ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/.git/hooks ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/.git/info ...
...

...

Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts ...

Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/release.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/run_watch_data.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/scripts/runone.py ...
Compiling /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/setup.py ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/data ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/data/video ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/db ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/log ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/test_root/uploads ...
Listing /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/ws_migrations ...

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry

localhost : ok=25 changed=14 unreachable=0 failed=1

Stderr from the command:

stdin: is not a tty

HanSu Kim

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Although this is not the recommended way to get devstack working on a machine, I'm curious to see if this may work for you.

1) Do a clone of the edx Configuration repo - git clone https://github.com/edx/configuration.git
2) Do a vagrant up from the ./vagrant/base/devstack directory

This takes a vanilla Ubuntu Precise 64 Vagrant image, and then installs edX from scratch using ./playbooks/vagrant-devstack.yml as it's guide.

It can potentially take a long time. It may even fail from time to time. If it does, you need to do a vagrant halt, and then do a vagrant up and vagrant provision and let it try to run again.

We don't use Windows often at edX, but I'm testing this right now to see what the results with the current codebase.

Ido Ophir

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HanSu,

1) thanks for your help,

2) it does not work see the error below

C:\Users\Ophir\Documents\GitHub\configuration\vagrant\base\devstack>vagrant up

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...

[default] Box 'precise64' was not found. Fetching box from specified URL for
the provider 'virtualbox'. Note that if the URL does not have
a box for this provider, you should interrupt Vagrant now and add
the box yourself. Otherwise Vagrant will attempt to download the
full box prior to discovering this error.
Downloading box from URL: http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box
Extracting box...ate: 674k/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--)
Successfully added box 'precise64' with provider 'virtualbox'!
[default] Importing base box 'precise64'...
[default] Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
[default] Setting the name of the VM...
[default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
[default] Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
[default] Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
[default] Forwarding ports...
[default] -- 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
[default] -- 8000 => 8000 (adapter 1)
[default] -- 8001 => 8001 (adapter 1)
[default] -- 4567 => 4567 (adapter 1)
[default] Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
[default] Booting VM...
[default] Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
[default] Machine booted and ready!
[default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see
shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the
virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on
your host and reload your VM.

Guest Additions Version: 4.2.0
VirtualBox Version: 4.3
[default] Configuring and enabling network interfaces...
[default] Mounting shared folders...
[default] -- /vagrant
[default] -- /edx/app/ora/ora
[default] -- /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
[default] -- /edx/app/forum/cs_comments_service
[default] Running provisioner: ansible...
The executable 'ansible-playbook' 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.

Regards,

Center for Workforce Development

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I'm having the same problem.

TASK: [edxapp | Install edx-platform npm dependencies] ************************

failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "npm install ", "delta": "0:00:01.514627", "end": "2014-05-30 19:01:39.863992", "item": "", "rc": 1, "start": "2014-05-30 19:01:38.349365"}

stderr: npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script

npm http 200 http://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script

npm ERR! error installing coffee...@1.6.1

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee'

npm ERR! You may report this log at:

npm ERR! <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>

npm ERR! or use

npm ERR! reportbug --attach /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/npm-debug.log npm

npm ERR!

npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-23-generic

npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"

npm ERR! cwd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform

npm ERR! node -v v0.6.12

npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4

npm ERR! path /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee

npm ERR! code ENOENT

npm ERR! message ENOENT, no such file or directory '/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee'

npm ERR! errno {}

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:

npm ERR! /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/npm-debug.log

npm not ok

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

to retry, use: --limit @/root/vagrant-devstack.retry

localhost : ok=133 changed=25 unreachable=0 failed=1

Can anyone help out with this. I successfully ran the https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/Vagrant-troubleshooting#dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows and the Junctions and Hardlink were created successfully:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1xftmdefgmvxch/2014-05-30_8-57-40%20-%20devstack%20%28Windows%2064%20errror%29.jpg

Center for Workforce Development

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I got rid of the coffee-script error that I showed you earlier https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1xftmdefgmvxch/2014-05-30_8-57-40%20-%20devstack%20%28Windows%2064%20errror%29.jpg by not executing the https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/Vagrant-troubleshooting#dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows in the cygwin terminal. I used the git version in SourceTree instead and that actually created the Junctions and Hardlinks for Windows symlinks FYI.

Damon Regan

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Hi Center for Workforce Development,

I'm trying to get past the errors on windows that seem to be related to the symlinks. I'm trying to follow your guidance on using SourceTree to deal with Junctions and Hardlinks for Windows symlinks, but am not having luck getting past the error. Can you elaborate on the steps you took?

I tried removing the edxapp directory from the devstack directory.

I forked the edx-platform repo.

Cloned my fork using SourceTree.

I ran vagrant up and vagrant ssh in windows command prompt.

sudo su edxapp and then ran paver devstack lms, but am still getting errors like the following:

IOError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/com

mon_static/js/vendor/draggabilly.pkgd.js'

Which I assume are because of the symbolic links not being handled correctly.

I tried cygwin and the Git aliases, but that only resulted in Protocol Errors for these same files instead of Not a directory errors. Hoping SourceTree can deal with the issue and that my sequence is just not using it correctly.

Best Regards,

Damon

Yarko Tymciurak

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see the latest note (with this afternoon's johnnycake release, I think) in https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Developer-Stack about VBOXFS - perhaps that will help you.

Damon Regan

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Thanks Yarko for pointing out the VBOXFS updates on the wiki. Unfortunately, setting the VAGRANT_USE_VBOXFS = true didn't seem to change much.

I tried destroying the vagrant environment and recreating it with the environment variable set, but the issue remains.

I also tried re-running the git rm-symlinks using Cygwin and then bringing up the vagrant machine. No luck either.

Finally, I noticed this line about the VBoxService's not matching after running vagrant up:

Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version:

Virtualbox on your host claims: 4.2.0

VBoxService inside the vm claims: 4.3.10

Going on, assuming VBoxService is correct...

GuestAdditions versions on your host (4.3.12) and guest (4.3.10) do not match.

stdin: is not a tty

...

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stdin: is not a tty

Any suggestions for what else to try would be greatly appreciated.

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Damon

Han Su Kim

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Jun 30, 2014, 9:09:46 PM6/30/14

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Sounds like a silly question but are you using the new Vagrantfile which introduces the new logic about environment variables?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/configuration/master/vagrant/release/devstack/Vagrantfile

Make sure you are setting the environment variable using the set command in Windows for an example see

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/other/debugging.html

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Damon Regan

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Thank you for your reply Han. I greatly appreciate your release of johnnycake with VBOXFS in consideration of windows users like me.

Indeed, I hadn't updated the vagrant file -- I felt foolish. Thank you for the question. Unfortunately, after updating the vagrant file to use the johnnycake release, I still encounter errors. Yes, I can see the environment variable is set in the command prompt. A full trace is here:

https://gist.github.com/damonregan/4a563873ba04bce4d6a3

I'm a newb to vagrant, virtualbox, and edx, but am eager to learn more. I greatly appreciate your consideration in enabling windows folks to work with the devstack.

Best Regards,
Damon

Han Su Kim

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Symlinks and Windows can be difficult, can you try the fix listed here?

https://github.com/edx/configuration/issues/659

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Damon Regan

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Thank you for the reference Han. I tried to follow the guidance in issue 659. One step that is unclear is the need to run the commands in Cygwin before running vagrant up. The edx-platform directory doesn't exist until after vagrant up is called, yet this directory is the target of the commands in the Cygwin terminal.

Here are the steps I took and the error I received:

1. Created and logged in as new local, non-administrator windows user account.

2. Used secpol.msc to authorize symlinks creation for local, non-administrator user.

3. Rebooted.

4. Created devstack directory and downloaded johnnycake-devstack Vagrantfile.

5. Cloned the https://github.com/edx/edx-platform repository using Atlassian SourceTree into devstack directory.

6. Ran Cygwin Terminal, changed to edx-platform directory, and ran commands at https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Simplified-install-with-vagrant#dealing-with-line-endings-and-symlinks-under-windows

7. Ran command prompt in devstack directory.

8. Set VAGRANT_USE_VBOXFS = true.

9. Ran vagrant up with johnnycake-devstack.

Encountered error below:

TASK: [edxapp | syncdb and migrate] *******************************************

failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": " /edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/b

in/python manage.py lms syncdb --migrate --noinput --settings=aws_migrate ", "de

lta": "0:00:12.264276", "end": "2014-07-10 15:43:45.055488", "item": "", "rc": 1

, "start": "2014-07-10 15:43:32.791212"}

stderr: 2014-07-10 11:43:39,611 INFO 3108 [dd.dogapi] dog_stats_api.py:66 - Init

ializing dog api to use statsd: localhost, 8125

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "manage.py", line 95, in <module>

execute_from_command_line([sys.argv[0]] + django_args)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line

utility.execute()

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute

self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv

self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

output = self.handle(*args, **options)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/base.py", line 371, in handle

return self.handle_noargs(**options)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/man

agement/commands/syncdb.py", line 99, in handle_noargs

management.call_command('migrate', **options)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/__init__.py", line 150, in call_command

return klass.execute(*args, **defaults)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/co

re/management/base.py", line 232, in execute

output = self.handle(*args, **options)

File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/man

agement/commands/migrate.py", line 108, in handle

ignore_ghosts = ignore_ghosts,