'stuck' at ==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance

Ian W

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Dec 14, 2017, 12:21:22 AM12/14/17

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It always fails the 'waiting for instance' stage.

I have tried various sizes of instance_type

==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance

amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

2017/12/13 23:55:52 ui: amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-01150984b7da79d53

2017/12/13 23:55:52 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-01150984b7da79d53) to become ready...

amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-01150984b7da79d53

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-01150984b7da79d53) to become ready...

I am able to see the instance up and running in aws console.

I am able to ssh to the machine at this point without issue using the packer created pem.

Here is my invocation:

$ PACKER_LOG=1 packer build -debug -var 'aws_access_key=<redacted>' -var 'aws_secret_key=<redacted>' -var "sha1_hash=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" ami.json

Here is my template file:

{

"variables": {

"aws_access_key": "",

"aws_secret_key": "",

"sha1_hash": ""

},

"builders": [{

"type": "amazon-ebs",

"access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",

"secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",

"region": "us-east-1",

"source_ami_filter": {

"filters": {

"virtualization-type": "hvm",

"name": "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*",

"root-device-type": "ebs"

},

"owners": ["099720109477"],

"most_recent": true

},

"instance_type": "m3.medium",

"ssh_username": "ubuntu",

"ami_name": "myami_{{user `sha1_hash`}}"

}]

}

Here is the full log:

2017/12/13 23:54:51 [INFO] Packer version: 1.1.3

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Packer Target OS/Arch: linux amd64

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Built with Go Version: go1.9

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-chroot

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-instance

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for oracle-oci

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for parallels-pvm

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for profitbricks

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for virtualbox-ovf

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebssurrogate

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for digitalocean

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for null

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for virtualbox-iso

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for googlecompute

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for file

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for hyperv-vmcx

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for lxd

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vmware-iso

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for azure-arm

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for docker

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for hyperv-iso

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for openstack

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for triton

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for cloudstack

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for lxc

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for qemu

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for alicloud-ecs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for oneandone

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for parallels-iso

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vmware-vmx

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebsvolume

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for converge

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for puppet-masterless

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for puppet-server

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for windows-shell

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for ansible

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for ansible-local

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for chef-client

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for salt-masterless

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for powershell

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for shell

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for windows-restart

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for chef-solo

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for file

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for shell-local

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for compress

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for docker-import

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for docker-push

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for docker-tag

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for manifest

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vagrant

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for atlas

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for googlecompute-export

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vagrant-cloud

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for amazon-import

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for checksum

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for docker-save

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for shell-local

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vsphere

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for vsphere-template

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for alicloud-import

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Using internal plugin for artifice

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Attempting to open config file: /home/ianw/.packerconfig

2017/12/13 23:54:51 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /home/ianw/.packerconfig

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Packer config: &{DisableCheckpoint:false DisableCheckpointSignature:false PluginMinPort:10000 PluginMaxPort:25000 Builders:map[amazon-instance:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-instance virtualbox-ovf:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf cloudstack:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-cloudstack docker:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-docker alicloud-ecs:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-alicloud-ecs vmware-vmx:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-vmware-vmx virtualbox-iso:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-virtualbox-iso file:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-file vmware-iso:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-vmware-iso hyperv-iso:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-hyperv-iso oneandone:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-oneandone parallels-iso:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-parallels-iso oracle-oci:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-oracle-oci amazon-ebssurrogate:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebssurrogate hyperv-vmcx:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-hyperv-vmcx amazon-ebsvolume:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebsvolume parallels-pvm:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-parallels-pvm null:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-null openstack:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-openstack triton:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-triton lxc:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-lxc qemu:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-qemu profitbricks:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-profitbricks googlecompute:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-googlecompute lxd:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-lxd azure-arm:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-azure-arm amazon-chroot:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-chroot amazon-ebs:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebs digitalocean:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-digitalocean] PostProcessors:map[vagrant-cloud:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vagrant-cloud shell-local:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-shell-local googlecompute-export:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-googlecompute-export checksum:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-checksum docker-save:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-save docker-tag:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-tag manifest:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-manifest atlas:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-atlas amazon-import:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-amazon-import vsphere-template:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vsphere-template artifice:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-artifice docker-import:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-import docker-push:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-push vsphere:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vsphere alicloud-import:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-alicloud-import compress:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-compress vagrant:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vagrant] Provisioners:map[file:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-file shell-local:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-shell-local chef-solo:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-chef-solo puppet-masterless:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-puppet-masterless puppet-server:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-puppet-server salt-masterless:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-salt-masterless shell:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-shell windows-restart:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-windows-restart converge:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-converge windows-shell:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-windows-shell ansible-local:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-ansible-local powershell:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-powershell ansible:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-ansible chef-client:/home/ianw/software/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-chef-client]}

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Setting cache directory: /home/ianw/WORK/CODE/analyzer-cli/package/packer/packer_cache

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Loading builder: amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Plugin could not be found. Checking same directory as executable.

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Current exe path: /home/ianw/software/packer/packer

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Creating plugin client for path: /home/ianw/software/packer/packer

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Starting plugin: /home/ianw/software/packer/packer []string{"/home/ianw/software/packer/packer", "plugin", "packer-builder-amazon-ebs"}

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Waiting for RPC address for: /home/ianw/software/packer/packer

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 [INFO] Packer version: 1.1.3

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Packer Target OS/Arch: linux amd64

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Built with Go Version: go1.9

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Attempting to open config file: /home/ianw/.packerconfig

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /home/ianw/.packerconfig

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Packer config: &{DisableCheckpoint:false DisableCheckpointSignature:false PluginMinPort:10000 PluginMaxPort:25000 Builders:map[] PostProcessors:map[] Provisioners:map[]}

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Setting cache directory: /home/ianw/WORK/CODE/analyzer-cli/package/packer/packer_cache

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 args: []string{"packer-builder-amazon-ebs"}

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Plugin minimum port: 10000

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Plugin maximum port: 25000

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Detected home directory from env var: /home/ianw

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Plugin address: unix /tmp/packer-plugin266249771

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Waiting for connection...

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Serving a plugin connection...

2017/12/13 23:54:51 ui: Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.

2017/12/13 23:54:51 ui: amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

2017/12/13 23:54:51 ui:

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Build debug mode: true

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Force build: false

2017/12/13 23:54:51 On error:

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Preparing build: amazon-ebs

Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.

amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Config: {PackerConfig:{PackerBuildName:amazon-ebs PackerBuilderType:amazon-ebs PackerDebug:true PackerForce:false PackerOnError: PackerUserVars:map[aws_access_key:<Filtered> aws_secret_key:<Filtered> sha1_hash:a0dc01cb86eef2bed9bc286b39433d3888df1535]} AccessConfig:{AccessKey:<Filtered> CustomEndpointEc2: MFACode: ProfileName: RawRegion:us-east-1 SecretKey:<Filtered> SkipValidation:false Token: session:<nil>} AMIConfig:{AMIName:myami_a0dc01cb86eef2bed9bc286b39433d3888df1535 AMIDescription: AMIVirtType: AMIUsers:[] AMIGroups:[] AMIProductCodes:[] AMIRegions:[] AMISkipRegionValidation:false AMITags:map[] AMIENASupport:false AMISriovNetSupport:false AMIForceDeregister:false AMIForceDeleteSnapshot:false AMIEncryptBootVolume:false AMIKmsKeyId: AMIRegionKMSKeyIDs:map[] SnapshotTags:map[] SnapshotUsers:[] SnapshotGroups:[]} BlockDevices:{AMIBlockDevices:{AMIMappings:[]} LaunchBlockDevices:{LaunchMappings:[]}} RunConfig:{AssociatePublicIpAddress:false AvailabilityZone: EbsOptimized:false IamInstanceProfile: InstanceType:m3.medium RunTags:map[] SourceAmi: SourceAmiFilter:{Filters:map[0xc42043a080:0xc42043a0a0 0xc42043a0c0:0xc42043a0e0 0xc42043a100:0xc42043a120] Owners:[0xc42043a1a0] MostRecent:true} SpotPrice: SpotPriceAutoProduct: DisableStopInstance:false SecurityGroupId: SecurityGroupIds:[] TemporarySGSourceCidr:0.0.0.0/0 SubnetId: TemporaryKeyPairName:packer_5a32041b-2e71-bf02-3989-bfc3044d403d UserData: UserDataFile: WindowsPasswordTimeout:20m0s VpcId: InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior:stop Comm:{Type:ssh SSHHost: SSHPort:22 SSHUsername:ubuntu SSHPassword: SSHPrivateKey: SSHPty:false SSHTimeout:5m0s SSHAgentAuth:false SSHDisableAgentForwarding:false SSHHandshakeAttempts:10 SSHBastionHost: SSHBastionPort:0 SSHBastionAgentAuth:false SSHBastionUsername: SSHBastionPassword: SSHBastionPrivateKey: SSHFileTransferMethod:scp SSHProxyHost: SSHProxyPort:0 SSHProxyUsername: SSHProxyPassword: WinRMUser: WinRMPassword: WinRMHost: WinRMPort:0 WinRMTimeout:0s WinRMUseSSL:false WinRMInsecure:false WinRMUseNTLM:false WinRMTransportDecorator:<nil>} SSHKeyPairName: SSHPrivateIp:false SSHInterface:} VolumeRunTags:map[] ctx:{Data:<nil> Funcs:map[clean_ami_name:0xc63f40] UserVariables:map[sha1_hash:a0dc01cb86eef2bed9bc286b39433d3888df1535 aws_access_key:<Filtered> aws_secret_key:<Filtered>] EnableEnv:false BuildName:amazon-ebs BuildType:amazon-ebs TemplatePath:/home/ianw/WORK/CODE/analyzer-cli/package/packer/ami.json}}

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Debug enabled, so waiting for build to finish: amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Starting build run: amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 Running builder: amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder amazon-ebs

2017/12/13 23:54:51 packer: 2017/12/13 23:54:51 Found region us-east-1

2017/12/13 23:54:51 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name: myami_a0dc01cb86eef2bed9bc286b39433d3888df1535

==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name: myami_a0dc01cb86eef2bed9bc286b39433d3888df1535

2017/12/13 23:54:54 ui: ask: ==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepPreValidate'. Press enter to continue.

==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepPreValidate'. Press enter to continue.

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: 2017/12/13 23:55:43 Using AMI Filters {

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Filters: [{

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Name: "root-device-type",

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Values: ["ebs"]

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: },{

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Name: "virtualization-type",

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Values: ["hvm"]

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: },{

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Name: "name",

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Values: ["ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*"]

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: }],

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: Owners: ["099720109477"]

2017/12/13 23:55:43 packer: }

2017/12/13 23:55:46 ui: amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-3dec9947

amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-3dec9947

2017/12/13 23:55:46 ui: ask: ==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepSourceAMIInfo'. Press enter to continue.

==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepSourceAMIInfo'. Press enter to continue.

2017/12/13 23:55:47 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5a32041b-2e71-bf02-3989-bfc3044d403d

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5a32041b-2e71-bf02-3989-bfc3044d403d

2017/12/13 23:55:47 ui: amazon-ebs: Saving key for debug purposes: ec2_amazon-ebs.pem

amazon-ebs: Saving key for debug purposes: ec2_amazon-ebs.pem

2017/12/13 23:55:47 ui: ask: ==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepKeyPair'. Press enter to continue.

==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepKeyPair'. Press enter to continue.

2017/12/13 23:55:47 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_5a320453-4f56-ee31-2999-b5c0b37c31e3

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_5a320453-4f56-ee31-2999-b5c0b37c31e3

2017/12/13 23:55:48 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Authorizing access to port 22 from 0.0.0.0/0 in the temporary security group...

==> amazon-ebs: Authorizing access to port 22 from 0.0.0.0/0 in the temporary security group...

2017/12/13 23:55:48 packer: 2017/12/13 23:55:48 [DEBUG] Waiting for temporary security group: sg-8f2109fa

2017/12/13 23:55:48 packer: 2017/12/13 23:55:48 [DEBUG] Found security group sg-8f2109fa

2017/12/13 23:55:48 ui: ask: ==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepSecurityGroup'. Press enter to continue.

==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'StepSecurityGroup'. Press enter to continue.

2017/12/13 23:55:50 ui: ask: ==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'stepCleanupVolumes'. Press enter to continue.

==> amazon-ebs: Pausing after run of step 'stepCleanupVolumes'. Press enter to continue.

2017/12/13 23:55:51 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...

==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...

2017/12/13 23:55:51 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance

2017/12/13 23:55:51 ui: amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance

amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

2017/12/13 23:55:52 ui: amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-01150984b7da79d53

2017/12/13 23:55:52 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-01150984b7da79d53) to become ready...

amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-01150984b7da79d53

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-01150984b7da79d53) to become ready...

It eventually times out and gives up :)

Rickard von Essen

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Dec 14, 2017, 3:29:03 AM12/14/17

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That exact template worked for me.

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Ian Wormsbecker

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What version of packer are you using? Perhaps there is a regression as I downloaded packer just a few days ago.

Or perhaps I have some Amazon IAM issue? I used the suggested IAM template out of the documentation.

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Rickard von Essen

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I'm using a dev builds but I checked that there is no changes since 1.1.3 which you have. IAM can't interfere with this. Can you confirm that you can connect from the same host that runs packer with the ubuntu user and the private key packer created to public ip of the instance?

Can you provide the output of: aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids <instance-id>

when packer is waiting for it to become ready.

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Ian Wormsbecker

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I can connect from the same machine using the public IP with the packer created key. User is ubuntu.

I can get the output of the aws ec2 describe... command in about 12 hours when I return home.

I appreciate your help.

Ian

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==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-048e9f790bb8d98c6) to become ready...

$ aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids i-048e9f790bb8d98c6

{

"Reservations": [

{

"ReservationId": "r-08ec7f3fd782f5a6f",

"OwnerId": "653221882153",

"Groups": [],

"Instances": [

{

"StateTransitionReason": "",

"RootDeviceName": "/dev/sda1",

"InstanceType": "m3.medium",

"Monitoring": {

"State": "disabled"

},

"PublicDnsName": "ec2-54-209-230-84.compute-1.amazonaws.com",

"Hypervisor": "xen",

"EnaSupport": true,

"PublicIpAddress": "54.209.230.84",

"SubnetId": "subnet-12289d3d",

"BlockDeviceMappings": [

{

"DeviceName": "/dev/sda1",

"Ebs": {

"Status": "attached",

"VolumeId": "vol-05e9c5a94eb5a29a7",

"DeleteOnTermination": true,

"AttachTime": "2017-12-15T04:12:48.000Z"

}

],

"Tags": [

{

"Value": "Packer Builder",

"Key": "Name"

}

],

"PrivateIpAddress": "172.31.89.61",

"SecurityGroups": [

{

"GroupId": "sg-c4d0e6b1",

"GroupName": "packer_5a334bbb-9503-77e2-c810-52fd0bd1ea20"

}

],

"State": {

"Code": 16,

"Name": "running"

},

"RootDeviceType": "ebs",

"ClientToken": "",

"VirtualizationType": "hvm",

"VpcId": "vpc-32dd984a",

"KeyName": "packer_5a334ba7-e836-995f-7a09-39f82a741755",

"SourceDestCheck": true,

"ImageId": "ami-3dec9947",

"AmiLaunchIndex": 0,

"Architecture": "x86_64",

"NetworkInterfaces": [

{

"PrivateIpAddress": "172.31.89.61",

"MacAddress": "12:ce:72:29:d7:f0",

"Attachment": {

"AttachmentId": "eni-attach-f2b12139",

"DeviceIndex": 0,

"Status": "attached",

"DeleteOnTermination": true,

"AttachTime": "2017-12-15T04:12:47.000Z"

},

"Groups": [

{

"GroupId": "sg-c4d0e6b1",

"GroupName": "packer_5a334bbb-9503-77e2-c810-52fd0bd1ea20"

}

],

"Status": "in-use",

"Description": "",

"OwnerId": "653221882153",

"PrivateIpAddresses": [

{

"Primary": true,

"PrivateIpAddress": "172.31.89.61",

"Association": {

"IpOwnerId": "amazon",

"PublicDnsName": "ec2-54-209-230-84.compute-1.amazonaws.com",

"PublicIp": "54.209.230.84"

},

"PrivateDnsName": "ip-172-31-89-61.ec2.internal"

}

],

"Association": {

"IpOwnerId": "amazon",

"PublicDnsName": "ec2-54-209-230-84.compute-1.amazonaws.com",

"PublicIp": "54.209.230.84"

},

"NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-983fd016",

"SubnetId": "subnet-12289d3d",

"PrivateDnsName": "ip-172-31-89-61.ec2.internal",

"VpcId": "vpc-32dd984a",

"SourceDestCheck": true

}

],

"InstanceId": "i-048e9f790bb8d98c6",

"ProductCodes": [],

"Placement": {

"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1b",

"Tenancy": "default",

"GroupName": ""

},

"PrivateDnsName": "ip-172-31-89-61.ec2.internal",

"LaunchTime": "2017-12-15T04:12:47.000Z",

"EbsOptimized": false

}

]

}

]

}

$

Then sshing to it:

$ ssh -i ec2_amazon-ebs.pem ubu...@ec2-54-209-230-84.compute-1.amazonaws.com date

Fri Dec 15 04:14:12 UTC 2017

$

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Matthew Hooker

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Thanks for the report. We recently changed how we wait for instances to become ready, and I think this is related to that. This will be fixed in the next version of packer. In the meantime, can you use 1.1.2? If there's a feature in 1.1.3 that you need, I think I can probably provide a patch that should fix this for you. Tracking here https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5705#issuecomment-352082197

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Awesome! Thanks for investigating.

I believe I don't need any features in 1.1.3 so will roll back to 1.1.2

Thanks again!

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Ensure that you have IAM permission ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus

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Dropping down to 1.1.2 seemed to solve all my problems :)

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