Blt vm fails with vagrant 1.8.7

[benjifisher]

We are still investigating and will provide more details, including

• Versions of OS X and BLT
• Results of blt doctor
• Full output of blt vm

The command blt vm fails on two of my coworkers' systems. I believe the problem is that vagrant uses the system libcurl. If this is too old, then vagrant fails to download the box.

On my system, the command succeeds:

• OS X 10.12.1 (Sierra)
• composer info acquia/blt reports versions : * 8.5.0.
• vagrant --version reports 1.8.5 (not the latest)

and

$ /usr/bin/curl --version
curl 7.49.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0) libcurl/7.49.1 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets 

Possible work-arounds (need testing) are to download the box with either

vagrant box add --insecure geerlingguy/ubuntu1404

or downloading the box from http://files.midwesternmac.com/boxes/ubuntu1404/virtualbox-114.box and adding it with

vagrant box add --name geerlingguy/ubuntu1404 path/to/file.box

Possible resolutions of this issue include

• Update the system requirements for BLT to require a minimum version of OS X.
• Add a work-around to the Onboarding instructions (or adding a new "troubleshooting" page).
• Update BLT so that it uses a fallback method when vagrant fails to download the box.

[benjifisher]

It turns out that the issue was not the system version of libcurl but a bug in the latest version (1.8.7) of vagrant. See this post on StackOverflow.

I will update the issue title. I do not know whether you want to close the issue or keep it open for better visibility.

[geerlingguy]

See: geerlingguy/drupal-vm#981 (upstream issue in drupal-vm). And yes, it's a major bug in Vagrant 1.8.7. Hopefully 1.8.8 comes out soon... and doesn't introduce any other regressions :P

If you want to remain on Vagrant 1.8.7, see this workaround: hashicorp/vagrant#7969 (comment)

[grasmash]

Thanks for posting. I'm closing since this is an upstream issue in Vagrant.