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Aisha Blake
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Aisha Blake
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Posted by Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Nothing happens when I type "vagrant ssh"

Hi! I've been following along with the videos and everything works fine until I get to the step where you're supposed to enter "vagrant ssh". Nothing happens. I just move to a new line in Cmder. I've searched around for an answer, but haven't seen anything that addresses this exact issue. Anyone have any ideas?

7 Answers

Aisha Blake
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Aisha Blake
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Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
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It works! After all these months, I came back to the Rails Development Track and started working in my normal Command Prompt window without thinking. That's the only thing that I changed and I've been able to follow along with the videos. Still not sure why it didn't work when I was using Cmder, but maybe anyone else having this issue can try just using the Command Prompt instead.

Yasin Khan
Yasin Khan
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Yasin Khan
Yasin Khan
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Hi Aisha, This thread shows up on google results even though it's really old. So I'm posting my answer here in case it can help someone else.

Just like you, vagrant ssh did nothing for me all of sudden. No feedback from the screen, No real errors pointing to failure.

I really love cmder vs. regular old command prompt and really wanted to get it to work again. Here's what I did:

  • Installed git for windows (I'm using windows 10)
  • Added the following to my PATH through Environment Variables: C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;
  • Open cmder and go into the settings, on the left hand side click on Startup
  • Under "Specified named task" change the default from the dropdown to the following: {Powershell::PowerShell as Admin}

Now I can Vagrant ssh again through cmder :)

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
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Aisha, do you get any response from Vagrant? Can you type "vagrant -v"? I'm not sure how it works in Windows exactly but in the Vagrant Documentation it says "If it is not found, please try logging out and logging back in to your system (this is particularly necessary sometimes for Windows)."

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
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Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It's definitely installed. (I get Vagrant 1.3.5 and everything before that step seems to work.) I've shut down the VM and started it up again, closed and reopened the cmder window, restarted my computer... still nothing.

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
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So you did :

vagrant init

vagrant up

But when you try:

vagrant ssh

Nothing happens?

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Exactly.

Edit: No, I didn't run vagrant init because it wasn't listed in the video. My understanding is that I shouldn't need to run that command since Treehouse provides you with a pre-made vagrantfile. Should I be setting up my own virtual machine?

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
23,234 Points

No your right. The vagrant file is already included. Sorry!

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
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I just trying to catch up with you on the install. Almost done.

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Not a problem. Take your time. I really appreciate the help. I've just got a few hours to kill before a few much needed days on silent retreat! I won't be able to work on much until Monday anyway. :)

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
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So what does you computer do when you type in vagrant up?

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... Several lines beginning with [default] Looks like the video :/

Mike White
Mike White
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Mike White
Mike White
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Welcome back. Out of curiosity did you download and install the VirtualBox Extension Pack in addition to Virtual Box? I missed that step the first time through myself.

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Thanks! I did. I've been back through the video a few times now and can't find any missed steps. :/

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Aisha Blake can you post a screenshot of Cmdr when it hangs?

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Aisha Blake can you try the following and paste another screenshot?

In Cmdr type:

set VAGRANT_LOG=INFO

Then do:

vagrant ssh

And let us know what it returns. That set command should give us some debugging information we can work with.

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Aisha Blake is there any more output? It seems to be cut off after "Invoking SSH". Also can you post a bit of a larger screenshot next time? This was a little tough to read :)

Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Sorry about the size! I matched everything up, though. I cut lines in half so I wouldn't omit any by accident. Unless there are two identical lines somewhere, that's everything. Under that "Invoking SSH" line is just the prompt.