The issue appears to be with Packer version 1.4. I switched to packer 1.3.5, made no other changes, and the issue is now resolved.
On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 2:51:55 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > I am new to Packer and have been attempting to use the Packer vmware-iso > builder. I have attempted to build both an Ubuntu 18.04 and a CentOS 7 > template. Both are failing at the same point. I am unsure what I'm missing. > I'm not even sure where to begin troubleshooting. When I run packer build > it proceeds through the following steps: > > > - Retrieving ISO > - Leaving retrieve loop for ISO > - Creating floppy disk... (I am using a floppy disk for the .cfg file > because I'm building directly on the esx host) > - Uploading Floppy to remote machine... > - Uploading ISO to remote machine... > - Creating required virtual machine disks > - Building and writing VMX file > - Build 'ubuntu-1604' errored: unexpected EOF > - Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: > - ubuntu-1604: unexpected EOF > - Builds finished but no artifacts were created > > This doesn't seem accurate as artifacts are present on the ESX host: > packer_cache folder with ISO virtual machine folder with a vmdk file, but > no vmx files are present. > > Here is some of the log output: > > > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 Writing VMX to: > /tmp/vmw-iso942565597/ubuntu-1804-base.vmx > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 Cleaning up remote > path: /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/packer_cache/packer670624036 > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 Removing remote > cache path /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/packer_cache/packer670624036 (local > /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/packer_cache/packer670624036) > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 [DEBUG] Opening new > ssh session > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 [DEBUG] starting > remote command: rm -f > "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/packer_cache/packer670624036" > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: 2019/04/19 12:03:30 Deleting floppy > disk: /tmp/packer670624036 > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: panic: runtime error: invalid memory > address or nil pointer dereference > - 2019/04/19 12:03:30 packer: [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation > code=0x1 addr=0x10 pc=0x1df735c] > > -- 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/a94928fd-dca4-43fd-8fd7-d203fd326547%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
