Re: [packer] Error waiting for SSH: handshake failed

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Jimmy,

Did your preseed file set up SSH? Run with PACKER_LOG=1 to see what it
is doing, as well. But from the error, it just looks like your SSH
credentials didn't work.

Best,
Mitchell

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jimmy Cuadra <jimmy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on building a VMware Fusion image with Packer, and getting stuck
> after the system has been installed. VMware Fusion shows this:
> http://cl.ly/image/1v39383t2L2V
>
> Back in the shell, Packer is sitting at this:
>
> ==> vmware: Waiting for SSH to become available...
>
> I can log in to the system with the vagrant user as defined in my
> preseed.cfg file, but Packer doesn't see the system as being ready.
> Eventually it times out with:
>
> ==> vmware: Error waiting for SSH: handshake failed: ssh: unable to
> authenticate, attempted methods [none password], no supported methods remain
>
> What should I do to make Packer see the system as installed and ready for
> SSH connections? Thanks!
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[Rohit Kothari]

Hi,

I assume you must have solved this problem as of now.

I am a beginner user of packer and vagrant, and have been trying to create different images using Packer.

Currently, I am facing the exact same problem that you mentioned in this post. Can someone please help me what needs to be done?

By the way, following are the specific details you might need to know:

- Trying VMware Workstation for virtualization.

- The ks file (kickstart) for centOS 6.5 does not get retrieved somehow (not even from an HTTP location) - this is a different issue I am facing.

- Since the ks file does not get retrieved, I go through the manual steps of installing centOS.

- Installation of centOS is successful, while the 'Packer-console' is still waiting for ssh and ultimately ends up erasing the vm that it just created and configured.

This might sound a basic problem, but any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

what is your packer template file

and after the install, did you reboot the centos guest?

Alvaro

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

also attack the kickstart file

[Rohit Kothari]

Yes, I rebooted the centos guest but no effect to the packer cmd which still waits for ssh. 

//This is my packer template file:-

{

  

  "builders": [

    {

      "type": "vmware-iso",

  "iso_url": "iso/CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso",

  "iso_checksum": "83221db52687c7b857e65bfe60787838",

  "iso_checksum_type": "md5",

  "http_directory": "http",

  "http_port_min" : 9001,

  "http_port_max" : 9001,

  "ssh_username": "vagrant",

        "ssh_password": "vagrant",

"ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",

        "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p",

        "boot_command": [

       "<tab> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort}}/ks.cfg<enter>"

        ],

     

        "vm_name": "packer-centos-6.5-x86_64"

      

    }

  ],

  "post-processors": [

    {

      "output": "builds/vmware-centos65.box",

      "type": "vagrant"

    }

  ]

}

//It fails to retrieve the kickstart file from the location it calculates from {http}..line.

//This is the ks.cfg file that is located in 'http' folder, which is placed at a location where my packer template is:-

install

cdrom

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

unsupported_hardware

network --bootproto=dhcp

rootpw --iscrypted vagrant

firewall --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

selinux --permissive

timezone UTC

bootloader --location=mbr

text

skipx

zerombr

clearpart --all --initlabel

autopart

auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5

firstboot --disabled

reboot

%packages --ignoremissing

@Base

@Core

@Development Tools

openssl-devel

readline-devel

zlib-devel

kernel-devel

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Rohit Kothari <rohiet...@gmail.com> wrote:

"boot_command": [

       "<tab> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort}}/ks.cfg<enter>"

        ],

It fail to take the kickstart file? can you try these 2 things.

1. add more ports

        "http_port_min" : 9001,

   "http_port_max" : 9003,

2.

     "boot_command" : [

            "<tab>",
            " text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/ks.cfg ",

            "<enter>"
        ]


If you can provide an screenshot of what error you see, that will help a lot to see what is failing.. nothing wrong at this moment..

[Rohit Kothari]

I tried this change, but it still fails to retrieve the ks file.

After I install guest OS manually, the VM gets booted up with guest OS installed, I shut down the guest OS, still the packer is waiting for ssh...and ultimately times out deleting the VM.

Here is the screenshot for ks file:

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

can you open that url from your desktop? (when the vm fails to read from there)

does the nic looks connected in the vm?