Need help --- Provisioning with shell doesn't work ( virtualbox-iso )

[Roy Yu]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in packer, I have setup the template json file and the preseed.cfg file, and everything seems fine when I build it.

But until this point

==> virtualbox-iso: Waiting 10s for boot...

==> virtualbox-iso: Typing the boot command...

==> virtualbox-iso: Waiting for SSH to become available...

==> virtualbox-iso: Connected to SSH!

==> virtualbox-iso: Uploading VirtualBox version info (4.3.16)

==> virtualbox-iso: Uploading VirtualBox guest additions ISO...

==> virtualbox-iso: Provisioning with shell script: /var/folders/qg/brspvqw91v198n7x68g4bh6mxxg36v/T/packer-shell203194274

what I saw on the screen is the virtualbox image in the ssh prompt, is that expected??  Looks like it hangs there, so I just manually type the user name and password to login.  But when I login, none of my software defined in shell provisioner are installed.  

Am I missing a step here?

Thanks

[Roy Yu]

Some more detail, I do a packer debug and I have attached my screenshot of what looks like and what message output at that time.

The symtom is the vbox screen just halt there  ( I see the pointer is blinking though )

And the message is as below

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 [DEBUG] Uploading script.sh: perms=C0644 size=332

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 SCP session complete, closing stdin pipe.

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 Waiting for SSH session to complete.

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 scp stderr (length 26): Sink: C0644 332 script.sh

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 opening new ssh session

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 starting remote command: chmod 0777 /tmp/script.sh

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 remote command exited with '0': chmod 0777 /tmp/script.sh

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-command-build: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-command-build: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-provisioner-shell: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 opening new ssh session

2014/09/19 08:52:35 packer-builder-virtualbox-iso: 2014/09/19 08:52:35 starting remote command: chmod +x /tmp/script.sh; PACKER_BUILD_NAME=virtualbox-iso PACKER_BUILDER_TYPE=virtualbox-iso /tmp/script.sh

[Roy Yu]

Btw, this is my provisioner section

 46     "provisioners": [{

 47         "type": "shell",

 48         "inline": [

 49             "sleep 30",

 50             "sudo apt-get install -y imagemagick",

 51             "sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties", 

 52             "sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/node.js",

 53             "sudo apt-get update -y -qq > /dev/null",

 54             "sudo apt-get upgrade -y -qq > /dev/null",

 55             "sudo apt-get install -y build-essential",

 56             "sudo apt-get install -y -q curl wget vim",

 57             "sudo apt-get install -y nodejs",

 58             "sudo apt-get install -y git-core"

 59         ]

 60     }]

Am I missing stuff here?

Thanks

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

can you share the full packer json template ?

your project template should have a shutdown command with user/pass to use and then a post processor task

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[Roy Yu]

Hi Alvaro,

Here is my json template, let me know if I'm missing a step, thanks.   

{

    "variables": {

        "ssh_name": "developer",

        "ssh_pass": "developer",

        "hostname": "dev-box-test-001"

    },

    "builders": [{

        "type": "virtualbox-iso",

        "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",

        "vboxmanage": [

            ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--vram", "32"]

        ],

        "disk_size" : 10000,

        "iso_url": "http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-server-amd64.iso",

        "iso_checksum": "e83adb9af4ec0a039e6a5c6e145a34de",

        "iso_checksum_type": "md5",

        "http_directory" : "http",

        "http_port_min" : 9001,

        "http_port_max" : 9001,

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

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

        "ssh_wait_timeout": "20m",

        "shutdown_command": "echo {{user `ssh_pass`}} | sudo -S shutdown -P now",

        "boot_command" : [

            "<esc><esc><enter><wait>",

            "/install/vmlinuz noapic ",

            "preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ",

            "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us ",

            "hostname={{user `hostname`}} ",

            "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive <wait>",

            "keyboard-configuration/modelcode=SKIP keyboard-configuration/layout=USA ",

            "keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false ",

            "initrd=/install/initrd.gz -- <enter><wait>"

        ],

        "boot_wait": "4s"

    }],

    "provisioners": [

        {

            "scripts": [

                "scripts/setup.sh"

            ],

            "type": "shell"

        }

     ]

}