TeamCity executing Packer 1.0.1 and higher, timeout

[neil.f...@gmail.com]

We are using TeamCity 9.1.6 to run our Packer builds. This has been working fine until Packer version 1.0.1.

We can successfully get TeamCity to execute our PowerShell script which executes Packer v 1.0.0 and below. As soon as we swap the exe to version 1.0.1, 1.0.2 ... 1.1.0 we get the following error using both of the builders we use.

Is anyone else using TeamCity with Packer for their builds?

We have tried changing PowerShell settings on our TeamCity build step such as x86 / x64, PowerShell v 2.0 mode, -NoProfile mode. Regardless we still get the timeout error.

If we run our PowerShell script on one of the virtual machines created by TeamCity running Packer 1.0.1 + but execute the script not via TeamCity we don't get the timeout issue.

Cheers

Failed to initialize build 'vmwaredesktop': error initializing builder 'vmware-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

Failed to initialize build 'virtualbox': error initializing builder 'virtualbox-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

[Megan Marsh]

Looks like this might be the same as https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5467?

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[neil.f...@gmail.com]

Hi Megan,

 thanks for your reply.

The only extra Packer plugin we use is the following and we have recently moved to the latest version of this (0.2.3);

https://github.com/frapposelli/packer-post-processor-vagrant-vmware-ovf

Are you suggesting we should remove this plugin from the Packer directory and see if that helps?

Thanks

Neil.

On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 02:07:51 UTC+10, Megan Marsh wrote:

Looks like this might be the same as https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5467?

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:41 PM, <neil.f...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are using TeamCity 9.1.6 to run our Packer builds. This has been working fine until Packer version 1.0.1.

We can successfully get TeamCity to execute our PowerShell script which executes Packer v 1.0.0 and below. As soon as we swap the exe to version 1.0.1, 1.0.2 ... 1.1.0 we get the following error using both of the builders we use.

Is anyone else using TeamCity with Packer for their builds?

We have tried changing PowerShell settings on our TeamCity build step such as x86 / x64, PowerShell v 2.0 mode, -NoProfile mode. Regardless we still get the timeout error.

If we run our PowerShell script on one of the virtual machines created by TeamCity running Packer 1.0.1 + but execute the script not via TeamCity we don't get the timeout issue.

Cheers

Failed to initialize build 'vmwaredesktop': error initializing builder 'vmware-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

Failed to initialize build 'virtualbox': error initializing builder 'virtualbox-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

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[Megan Marsh]

I guess it's worth a try -- I was commenting more as a way of pointing out to the community that we might have multiple people reporting the same issue, since your email and the issue had similar features.  We haven't gotten to the bottom of the linked issue yet but when we do it may help you as well.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

Can you share the OS of server and agent? both windows?

If you can share how to repro this, I can have a look.

Thanks

Alvaro

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[neil.f...@gmail.com]

Hi 

 the Operating System on the TeamCity elastic build agents is Windows Server 2012 R2. This runs on VMware vSphere with nested virtualisation enabled.

Within the virtual machine we run;

• Packer 1.0.0
  
• Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.28
  
• VMware Workstation 12.5.7
  
• Vagrant 1.9.5
  
• Chef DK 1.6.1
• TeamCity Agent 9
• various other development tools

The Operating Systems we build with Packer include Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016, as well as Red Hat Linux 7.

We experience the timeout issue using both the virtualbox-iso and vmware-iso builders on all of the above Operating Systems when using TeamCity and Packer 1.0.1 or higher.

Cheers

Neil.

On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:41:51 UTC+10, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

Hello

Can you share the OS of server and agent? both windows?

If you can share how to repro this, I can have a look.

Thanks

Alvaro

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:41 PM, <neil.f...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are using TeamCity 9.1.6 to run our Packer builds. This has been working fine until Packer version 1.0.1.

We can successfully get TeamCity to execute our PowerShell script which executes Packer v 1.0.0 and below. As soon as we swap the exe to version 1.0.1, 1.0.2 ... 1.1.0 we get the following error using both of the builders we use.

Is anyone else using TeamCity with Packer for their builds?

We have tried changing PowerShell settings on our TeamCity build step such as x86 / x64, PowerShell v 2.0 mode, -NoProfile mode. Regardless we still get the timeout error.

If we run our PowerShell script on one of the virtual machines created by TeamCity running Packer 1.0.1 + but execute the script not via TeamCity we don't get the timeout issue.

Cheers

Failed to initialize build 'vmwaredesktop': error initializing builder 'vmware-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

Failed to initialize build 'virtualbox': error initializing builder 'virtualbox-iso': timeout while waiting for plugin to start

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