Packer: LXD image builder hangs on Debian

[zacksiri]

I installed Packer on macOS and then i installed it on debian (machine running lxd) if i toggle the build from my macOS with remote set to the debian host the build succeeds

If i do the same on the debian host itself this is what i get

2017/10/25 10:54:20 packer: 2017/10/25 10:54:20 [INFO] 285 bytes written for 'uploadData'
2017/10/25 10:54:20 [INFO] 285 bytes written for 'uploadData'
2017/10/25 10:54:20 packer: 2017/10/25 10:54:20 Running copy command: lxc file push - packer-base/tmp/script_213.sh
2017/10/25 10:54:20 packer: 2017/10/25 10:54:20 Retryable error: Error uploading script: exit status 1

Steps to Reproduce

on a debian host

packer build template.json 

[mwhooker]

can you post the contents of template.json

[zacksiri]

@mwhooker sure thing. Nice beard btw.

{
  "builders":[
    {
      "type": "lxd",
      "name": "base",
      "image": "images:alpine/edge",
      "output_image": "artellectual/base"
    }
  ],
  "provisioners":[
    {
      "type": "file",
      "source": "./",
      "destination": "./"
    }, {
      "type": "shell",
      "script": "./setup.sh"
    }
  ]
}

[filterfish]

I'm having the same problem but fortunately I have an older version of lxd running and packer works with that version.

I _think_ file copying within lxd is currently broken which is causing problems with packer. See: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/4050

[filterfish]

It would seem that lxc file push not working was a red herring; I hadn't restarted LXD after upgrading it. After restarting the lxd daemon both lxc file push` and packer work perfectly.

@zacksiri try restarting lxd and see what happens.

[zacksiri]

@filterfish thank you! I think this can be closed.

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