A good way trying to debug this a bit is to use the null builder 1) against an instance that you manually launched and verified connectivity with. Turn on debug logging in sshd and see if there is any difference when packer fails and when your manual scp succeeds.
Have you tried setting ssh_file_transfer_method to sftp? 2) 1) https://packer.io/docs/builders/null.html 2) https://packer.io/docs/templates/communicator.html#ssh_file_transfer_method On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 00:17 <[email protected] wrote: > I did. > If I a EC2 instance manually and scp from my local host it works just > fine. > > On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 3:25:53 PM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote: >> >> Did you verify that scp is installed and working? >> >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 22:47 <[email protected] wrote: >> >>> Packer version: 1.3.3 >>> >>> On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 2:46:07 PM UTC-7, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> The lastest Amazon Linux build is throwing an SCP error: >>>> >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [INFO] 32 bytes written for 'uploadData' >>>> [INFO] 32 bytes written for 'uploadData' >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] Opening new ssh session >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] Starting remote scp process: scp >>>> -vt /tmp >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] Started SCP session, beginning >>>> transfers... >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] Copying input data into temporary >>>> file so we can read the length >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] scp: Uploading script_2093.sh: >>>> perms=C0644 size=32 >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] SCP session complete, closing stdin >>>> pipe. >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] Waiting for SSH session to complete. >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] non-zero exit status: 127 >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 [DEBUG] scp output: >>>> packer: 2018/12/06 14:40:38 Retryable error: Error uploading script: >>>> SCP failed to start. This usually means that SCP is not >>>> packer: properly installed on the remote system. >>>> >>>> Ideas? >>>> >>> -- >>> 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/5f8b6111-1673-4590-89d2-002f3f7d179e%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/5f8b6111-1673-4590-89d2-002f3f7d179e%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/979692b8-198f-464b-bec3-bfc3d28f1a6a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/979692b8-198f-464b-bec3-bfc3d28f1a6a%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/CALz9Rt9j9MZyYeGo5BMCf3GDPJbGG-%2Bq7nogeuG%3D-FXH_c9ZRw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
