Homestead: There was a problem while downloading the metadata for your box

[santoshachari]

Hi,

For past few days, Homestead is throwing this message every time I try to start it. I am on latest Vagrant, Virtual box. How can I fix it?

🤘?~ homestead up
Bringing machine 'homestead-7' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead-7: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' is up to date...
==> homestead-7: There was a problem while downloading the metadata for your box
==> homestead-7: to check for updates. This is not an error, since it is usually due
==> homestead-7: to temporary network problems. This is just a warning. The problem
==> homestead-7: encountered was:
==> homestead-7: 
==> homestead-7: The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
==> homestead-7: 
==> homestead-7: If you want to check for box updates, verify your network connection
==> homestead-7: is valid and try again.

All seems fine on my network

Versions

• Vagrant: 2.0.2
• Provider: Virtualbox 5.2
• Homestead: Run homestead --version to show the version, return''s vagrant's version? I've pulled the latest from master from git repo.

Host operating system

MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2

[svpernova09]

@browner12 is this what you’re seeing?

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On Feb 7, 2018, 04:20 -0600, Santosh Achari [e-mail], wrote:

Hi,
For past few days, Homestead is throwing this message every time I try to start it. I am on latest Vagrant, Virtual box. How can I fix it?
🤘?~ homestead up
Bringing machine 'homestead-7' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead-7: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' is up to date...
==> homestead-7: There was a problem while downloading the metadata for your box
==> homestead-7: to check for updates. This is not an error, since it is usually due
==> homestead-7: to temporary network problems. This is just a warning. The problem
==> homestead-7: encountered was:
==> homestead-7:
==> homestead-7: The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
==> homestead-7:
==> homestead-7: If you want to check for box updates, verify your network connection
==> homestead-7: is valid and try again.
Versions

• Vagrant: 2.0.2
• Provider: Virtualbox 5.2
• Homestead: Run homestead --version to show the version, return''s vagrant's version? I've pulled the latest from master from git repo.

Host operating system
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2
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[ricardoseriani]

I believe that this is due https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ being decomissioned (as you can see when you access https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/ ) , please run
sed -i -- 's/atlas.hashicorp/vagrantcloud/g' ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/*/metadata_url
and check if this solves the problem
If you aren't on linux, open the file ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead/metadata_url using a text editor and change it's content to https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead

[santoshachari]

@ricardoseriani It did fix it. Thank you!
Just as note, the first time it threw this:

==> homestead-7: There was a problem while downloading the metadata for your box
==> homestead-7: to check for updates. This is not an error, since it is usually due
==> homestead-7: to temporary network problems. This is just a warning. The problem
==> homestead-7: encountered was:
==> homestead-7: 
==> homestead-7: Illegal characters found in URL
==> homestead-7: 
==> homestead-7: If you want to check for box updates, verify your network connection
==> homestead-7: is valid and try again.

I opened the file:

~/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead/metadata_url

and deleted _trailing space/new line_.

[browner12]

yah, this was the error I was seeing. I did a vagrant box add laravel/homestead which must have updated this file, and fixed it.

[bohraji]

Thanks @ricardoseriani

I was on MacOS and fired up vim to edit the file and ended up getting Illegal characters found in URL.

I stumbled upon the solution given in #816

Final Steps-

• Open vim in binary mode vim -b ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead/metadata_url
• Disable Vim's automatic EOL, type the Vim command :set noeol
• Update file content to https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead
• Write and quit, type the Vim command :wq

[kiwikefei]

thanks @bohraji
:set noeol solve the Illegal characters found in URL issue.

[IllyaMoskvin]

Bash one-liner to fix trailing whitespace after running @ricardoseriani's sed command :

perl -pi -e 'chomp if eof' ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/*/metadata_url

Shamelessly stolen from here. Check that thread for other solutions if you don't have Perl.

[dealonzo]

@ricardoseriani solution works fine for me, I'm in mac and edited the file with textEdit

[jimmymixer]

I'm on a Macbook. I'm having a difficult time. I originally upgraded the ubuntu after the vagrant up (which took a while), restarted my computer and now I have the same problem. I tried running "sed -i -- 's/atlas.hashicorp/vagrantcloud/g' ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/*/metadata_url" . I'm getting Illegal characters found in the URL. Time out is taking 2+ minutes. Vagrant wont run. If anyone has any advice, it would be much appreciated.

[jimmymixer]

@dealonzo how did you edit the file. Where did you find the file to edit?

[ricardoseriani]

The file is usually in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead/metadata_url

[dealonzo]

@jimmymixer please see comment above