Catch error of Null Builder with Shell Provisioner

[Becky]

Hi, 

I am using packer 1.0.0 on Windows 10.

 

Run.bat

 

Packer build –only mybuilder –var-file=variables_file.json

Echo %errorlevel%  

<<This always show 0 even if my shell scripts exited with returned code 1. 

Is this expected behavior, if so then how can one catch the errors of SHELL and take action in run.bat file ?>>

 

variables_file.json

 

{

    "builders": [{

        "type": "null",

        "name": " mybuilder",

        "ssh_host": "{{user ` host`}}",

        "ssh_username": "{{user ` username`}}",

        "ssh_password": "{{user ` password`}}",

        "ssh_timeout" : "{{user `esxi_ssh_timeout`}}"

    }],

    "provisioners": [{

        "type": "shell",

        "only": ["mybuilder"],

        "scripts": [

            "script/testESXi.sh"

        ]

    }

    ]

}

 

testESXi.sh

 

#!/bin/sh

 

exit 1;

Regards,

Becky

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello i see test.sh but you mention run.bat, so I assume you run packer in windows, and want to capture the error?

lets go on stages

Can you run the packer in debug mode so we can confirm the exit code of that part is fine?

set PACKER_LOG=1

then run the build

share a gist (gist.github.com)

and if you can run in your run.bat something like this after the packer run: 

if %errorlevel% neq 0 exit /b %errorlevel%

Should help.

Thanks

Alvaro

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[Becky]

Hi Alvaro,

I was able to figure out the issue. It seems PACKER works fine.

Issue was in my script in highlighted line

WORNG:

packer build -only=BUILDER-TEST-ESXI -var-file=%VARIABLES_FILE_PATH1% %VARIABLES_FILE_PATH2% >> test.log  2>&1

CORRECT:

packer build -only=BUILDER-TEST-ESXI -var-file=%VARIABLES_FILE_PATH1% %VARIABLES_FILE_PATH2% >> test.log

Here is the working script in which i am able to catch the error...

@echo off

REM setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

cls

SET "APP_HOME_DIR=%~dp0"

SET "APP_BIN_DIR=%~dp0bin"

SET "PACKER_HOME=;%APP_BIN_DIR%\packer"

SET "VARIABLES_FILE_PATH1=%APP_HOME_DIR%template\variablesTest.json"

SET "VARIABLES_FILE_PATH2=%APP_HOME_DIR%template\connectToESXiTest.json"

SET "PATH=%PATH%%PACKER_HOME%"

echo Validating Template

packer validate -var-file=%VARIABLES_FILE_PATH1% %VARIABLES_FILE_PATH2%

echo Packer Build

packer build -only=BUILDER-TEST-ESXI -var-file=%VARIABLES_FILE_PATH1% %VARIABLES_FILE_PATH2% >> test.log

IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 echo Error: Seems packers exited with non-zero exit code

Thanks,

Becky

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