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Vagrant Up Error

I keep getting this error. Do you know how to fix it?

KEVINs-MacBook-Air:~ kevinleland$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    default: Box Provider: virtualbox
    default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox
    default: Downloading: base
An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.

Couldn't open file /Users/kevinleland/base

10 Answers

From what you've pasted, it doesn't look like you're running the command inside the folder containing Treehouse's Vagrantfile.

Once you download the VM zip, you should extract it and move the extracted folder to your home folder.

Then you can navigate to that folder cd treehouse and then you can run vagrant up.

I downloaded it and dragged it to my "Documents" folder. I don't have a "Home" folder. Not sure why. And this is what I get when I do cd treehouse

KEVINs-MacBook-Air:~ kevinleland$ cd treehouse
-bash: cd: treehouse: No such file or directory
KEVINs-MacBook-Air:~ kevinleland$

Okay, in that case, once you open the terminal, write the following commands:

cd Documents
cd treehouse
vagrant up

Also, if you want to add the home folder to your shortcuts in Finder, open a Finder window and go to Finder -> Preferences. On the Sidebar tab, select the last item under Favorites, it should be your name with a little house icon next to it. Then you'll be able to move things there — that's your home folder.

If you move the treehouse folder there, you won't have to write cd Documents.

That didn't work either

Last login: Sat Apr 12 14:51:40 on ttys000
KEVINs-MacBook-Air:~ kevinleland$ cd Documents
KEVINs-MacBook-Air:Documents kevinleland$ cd treehouse
KEVINs-MacBook-Air:treehouse kevinleland$ vagrant up
-bash: vagrant: command not found
KEVINs-MacBook-Air:treehouse kevinleland$
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Kevin Lelan - Looks like you might be having some issues with moving around on the command line. Check out Treehouse's Console Foundations course to get you up to speed before attempting the Rails track.

What I find strange is that the command (vagrant) which worked earlier for Kevin suddenly stopped working now that he's in the right folder.

Might be a good idea to re-install vagrant, too.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I noticed that and wondered about that as well. I haven't used vagrant so I don't know if it's a path-related issue.

It shouldn't be. Vagrant installs itself to /usr/bin/vagrant on OS X, so it should be accessible everywhere.

He probably had the terminal open while he installed vagrant, opened another terminal after installing tried some stuff and got back to the first one. Having your path changed due to cd around is extremely weird...

Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points

I closed down the virtual box. The started again with vagrant up, gave me the treehouse-rails4 while downloading and it worked.

Jeff Brooks
PLUS
Jeff Brooks
Courses Plus Student 495 Points

So reading through this, I haven't found a solution to the exact issue Kevin is having. I have uninstalled and reinstalled virtualbox and vagrant...I did quit terminal.

Last login: Sun Apr 20 21:18:06 on ttys000 SB6s-MacBook-Pro:~ SB6$ cd treehouse SB6s-MacBook-Pro:treehouse SB6$ ls Vagrantfile projects SB6s-MacBook-Pro:treehouse SB6$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/SB6/treehouse/base SB6s-MacBook-Pro:treehouse SB6$

Suggestions?

[Toby@XX KSplice]$ ls ~/.vagrant.d/ boxes data gems insecure_private_key rgloader setup_version tmp [Toby@XX KSplice]$ ls ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/ boxee7fdaaa1b07df17bd02710349e937b6666bdb0a [Toby@XX KSplice]$ rm ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/boxee7fdaaa1b07df17bd02710349e937b6666bdb0a

[Toby@XX KSplice]$ ls ~/.vagrant.d/ boxes data gems insecure_private_key rgloader setup_version tmp [Toby@XX KSplice]$ ls ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/ boxee7fdaaa1b07df17bd02710349e937b6666bdb0a [Toby@XX KSplice]$ rm ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/boxee7fdaaa1b07df17bd02710349e937b6666bdb0a

amo G
amo G
864 Points

work to me these are the following steps:

cd homestead (in your directory homestead folder) OR cd Homestead del vagrantfile or rm -Rf Vagrantfile vagrant init laravel/homestead vagrant up

Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points

He can try this. I got a similar error on WIndows so I went to the vagrant website. Treehouse was missing a step

$ vagrant init hashicorp/precise32 $ vagrant up

After I entered the first part then did vagrant up I had no problems. But what happened is it did install just regular ubuntu. not the the treehouse version. Is there a way to change the first command to have it run treehouse vm.

If you run vagrant with the init parameter, you are creating your own virtual machine, basically overwriting the Treehouse one.

You do not use init with a pre-made Vagrantfile.

Treehouse isn't missing a step, they just already generated a Vagrantfile for you.