Hi Matthew, the PACKER_LOG option immediately revealed the error. Packer was trying to connect the the VNC port on the vSphere host. Somehow the firewall rules allowing the VNC port range used by packer disappeared. Opening the firewall resolved my issue.
Thank you! Kind regards, Mate On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 10:00:56 AM UTC+9:30, Matthew Hooker wrote: > > If you can send a log of packer with `PACKER_LOG=1` set, and any logs you > can get from vsphere, it would help. > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:26 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I started experimenting with the vmware-iso builder using a vSphere 6.5 >> host. The first few builds were flawless then after a few days, when I got >> back to the project, the build procedure waits for at least 30-45 minutes >> after the "vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server" phase. >> >> I tried to correlate this to events in the logs on the vSphere host but >> nothing stands out for me. >> >> Doing a strace on the packer process I get this: futex(0x1f674b0, >> FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL >> >> The problem is constantly present but I have no idea what is causing it. >> >> I'd like to ask your your help who are more experienced with packer and >> vSphere, maybe you have encountered this issue or can give me some this of >> how to debug it. >> >> Kind regards, >> Mate >> >> -- >> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >> list. >> >> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues >> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Packer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/c2a6c174-4303-4a49-b3ba-8b16d5476186%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/c2a6c174-4303-4a49-b3ba-8b16d5476186%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/32a8df46-57f4-4c78-9db3-6715ca7264a2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
