Hi, I am facing the same issue. Specifically when building ubuntu18.04 image. did you find any solution to this issue by any chance?
On Friday, 16 September 2016 11:51:07 UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > The only two security related things packer does is setting up temporary > security groups and that is only relevant to the building of the AMI. And > it creates a temporary ssh key and uploads the public key to aws which > injects it into the instance via cloud-init. I feel there is some key > information missing here. > > For trouble shooting I recomend: > 1) check the console log of the instance you can't access. Does it contain > any errors regarding network, sshd, or authorized? > 2) run packer with debug logging enabled: PACKER_LOG=1 packer build > template.json, this will reveal exactly what packer does. > 3) in your AMI build, including a hard-coded authorized public key that > you can use. This will allow you to ssh a into the instance even if there > is some cloud-init related problems. > > On Sep 16, 2016 00:52, "Synaesthete" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I've been building AMIs using Packer for a while. I'm basing these on >> Amazon Linux, and have been using the same base AMI version. I'm using >> Packer 10.1. Recently I have not been able to SSH in to instances built >> from these Packer base AMIs. I get a Connection Refused error. I'm using a >> Terraform configuration to manage my infrastructure, so have defined >> security groups, etc. with that. If I build my infrastructure with the >> hard-coded Amazon Linux base AMI, I'm able to SSH in. If I do the same with >> a Packer-built AMI, I can't log in. I've even tried removing the >> provisioner block from my Packerfile. It's as if Packer is doing something >> that prevents SSH (disables SSH agent? Messes with the firewall?) >> >> Does this ring a bell for anyone? What could be happening? >> >> -- >> 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/9d70cf00-a2db-48ae-8a13-cb0ee8b26b9e%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/9d70cf00-a2db-48ae-8a13-cb0ee8b26b9e%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/483ccee5-1b74-425f-b79d-c9e19ad2c1df%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
