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David McGraw
Courses Plus Student 9,711 Pointsvagrant error message
Hello everyone,
I've have been working on the todo list rails application course. It's been a little while since I've gotten on the terminal to work on it (I've been doing the MySQL tutorials).
When I type vagrant up to get the VM going I receive this error:
The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in the 'poweroff' state. Please verify everything is configured properly and try again.
If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it,
it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the
GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can retrieve.
For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run vagrant up while the
VirtualBox GUI is open.
I've taken all the correct steps, going to all the correct directories of the ODOT project. I could be the easiest thing that I'm missing, just a little rusty on the terminal.
Any thoughts? THANK YOU!
3 Answers
Brandon McClelland
4,645 PointsWhen El Capitan Beta came out people had issues getting Vagrant installed properly: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5807
They fudge around with pointing bash at different places to get it to work. But probably the first thing I would try is updating VirtualBox as mentioned towards the bottom of that page.
Brandon McClelland
4,645 PointsHard to help without knowing more details:
Which VM provider are you using? Have you tried starting the machine up without vagrant. Did you try "run vagrant up while the VirtualBox GUI is open" ? What OS are you using?
David McGraw
Courses Plus Student 9,711 PointsHi Brandon,
I recently updated my OSX to EL CAPITAN. I can't remember much since it was all done and installed as part of setting up my RoR environment to work on the ODOT rails app, about a year ago.
Last time I worked on the app was before updating my machine to EL CAPITAN, which was about a month ish ago. If you need more details, I can try and go back step by step through the RoR environment tutorial.
David McGraw
Courses Plus Student 9,711 PointsDavid McGraw
Courses Plus Student 9,711 PointsYeah after doing some research, I realized it was a version issue. So I uninstalled VirtualBox and Vagrant. Started from scratch basically, re-installed both and now everything works again.
Thank you!