Packer: Shell provisioner not working with ESX remote

[murph571]

When building a Centos 7 template with remote ESX host the shell provisioner doesn't successfully upload the script to be run and eventually times out. The specific error is "scp output: scp: broken pipe"

• Packer v. 1.2.2
• Windows 10 and ESXi 6.5
• Debug log in Gist

[rickard-von-essen]

Please supply the information requested in the issue template:

• The _simplest example template and scripts_ needed to reproduce the bug.
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[sredne]

I'm getting something very similar. However, I'm creating an Ubuntu 16.04 template with Hyper-V as my builder.

• Packer 1.2.2
• Windows 10 1607 as my builder

Gist

Any idea? I've setup OpenSSH on my builder box, but I'm not sure if that's the SCP it's trying to use. I can manually copy the files over with SCP.

[fretboarder]

I'm seeing exactly the same effects as @sredne when trying to build a CentOS based AMI for EC2. Build host is running Amazon Linux.

• Packer 1.2.2

[sredne]

So I ended up resolving the problem by rolling back to 1.1.3.

I think this issue is similar to https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6135

[SwampDragons]

Sounds like this may have been a duplicate of #6135 and was hopefully resolved with the 1.2.3 release; please upgrade and if that doesn't resolve your issues, we'll reopen.

[murph571]

Got sucked into rabbit holes and stuff but finally tried 1.2.3. No more problems.

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