Packer: Packer hangs on CentOS 7.3

[DanielMarquard]

I can't seem to get any leads on troubleshooting why Packer 1.0.2 hangs on CentOS 7.3. There is no output of any kind in the console, and nothing in /var/log/messages. Temporarily disabling SELinux did not change this behavior.

If I run packer version, Packer hangs and nothing is output in the console. This is the same behavior for both packer validate and packer build. Running Packer with PACKER_LOG=1 also outputs nothing.

I wish I had more information to provide on the issue, but all I can say is that it's simply not working.

[DanielMarquard]

After installing with go, that binary seems to work. So that I can avoid having to use Go to install Packer, what are the dependencies that might have caused the pre-compiled binary to hang?

[lfarnell]

How did you build the go binary? With the makefile or go build?

[DanielMarquard]

I used go get github.com/hashicorp/packer

[rickard-von-essen]

https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/install.html#troubleshooting

You have another tool on the path called packer. (which -a packer)

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