And then vagrant gave up ... for a while

Don't you just love Ruby errors ... like the one below ?

Don't they almost make Java stack traces look readable ?
57 lines of jibberish ... where all I wanted to read was "VirtualBox in error state, check gui"

People like Randall Hanssen deserve much more visibility .. they do understand how to write a good error message and there are lots of projects that need improvement there.

Anywhow... vagrant had suddenly stopped working on me with the error below

Turned out that I had deleted some unused Virtualbox images , not from the VirtualBox gui and therefore Virtualbox didn't want to play nice ..

Upon starting the VirtualBox gui and cleaning up the images there , everything started working again ..

But the error wasn't really helpfull .. 

  1. vagrant up 
  2. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/com/implementer/ffi.rb:95:in `call_and_check': Error in API call to get_teleporter_enabled: 2147942405 (VirtualBox::Exceptions::FFIException)
  3. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/com/implementer/ffi.rb:69:in `call_vtbl_function'
  4. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/com/implementer/ffi.rb:36:in `read_property'
  5. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/com/abstract_interface.rb:122:in `read_property'
  6. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/com/abstract_interface.rb:64:in `teleporter_enabled'
  7. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:93:in `send'
  8. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:93:in `spec_to_proc'
  9. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:32:in `call'
  10. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:32:in `load_interface_attribute'
  11. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:13:in `load_interface_attributes'
  12. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:12:in `each'
  13. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/interface_attributes.rb:12:in `load_interface_attributes'
  14. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:251:in `initialize_attributes'
  15. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:246:in `initialize'
  16. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:229:in `new'
  17. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:229:in `populate_array_relationship'
  18. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:228:in `each'
  19. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:228:in `populate_array_relationship'
  20. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:218:in `populate_relationship'
  21. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/relatable.rb:242:in `populate_relationship'
  22. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model.rb:215:in `populate_relationship'
  23. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/dirty.rb:129:in `ignore_dirty'
  24. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model.rb:215:in `populate_relationship'
  25. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/global.rb:93:in `load_relationship'
  26. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/relatable.rb:192:in `read_relationship'
  27. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/abstract_model/relatable.rb:146:in `vms'
  28. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:185:in `all'
  29. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virtualbox-0.8.3/lib/virtualbox/vm.rb:193:in `find'
  30. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/vm.rb:13:in `find'
  31. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:378:in `load_vms!'
  32. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:377:in `each'
  33. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:377:in `load_vms!'
  34. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:144:in `vms'
  35. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:180:in `multivm?'
  36. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/command/helpers.rb:19:in `target_vms'
  37. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/command/up.rb:8:in `execute'
  38. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `send'
  39. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'
  40. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'
  41. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `invoke_all'
  42. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/config.rb:115:in `map'
  43. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/core_ext/ordered_hash.rb:73:in `each'
  44. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `map'
  45. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `invoke_all'
  46. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:226:in `dispatch'
  47. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:109:in `send'
  48. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:109:in `invoke'
  49. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/lib/vagrant/cli.rb:45:in `up'
  50. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `send'
  51. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'
  52. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'
  53. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor.rb:263:in `dispatch'
  54. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/base.rb:389:in `start'
  55. 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vagrant-0.7.2/bin/vagrant:15
  56. 	from /usr/bin/vagrant:19:in `load'
  57. 	from /usr/bin/vagrant:19

Submitted by Kris Buytaert on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 22:31
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#1 Thomas : Had the exact same problem a

Had the exact same problem a while back with Vagrant. A 'vagrant destroy' didn't fully remove the HD files and subsequent 'vagrant up' runs would constantly die with an obscure Ruby error.


05/03/2011 - 21:14