The box 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1604' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog

[ashabed]

Issue Type

• Bug Report (solution provided)

Your Environment

Vagrant 1.8.7
VirtualBox 5.1.12r112440
ansible not installed

Your OS

• macOS (Sierra)

Full console output

vagrant up Bringing machine 'academyvm170' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> academyvm170: Box 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1604' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... academyvm170: Box Provider: virtualbox academyvm170: Box Version: >= 0 The box 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1604' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog. If this is a private box on HashiCorp's Atlas, please verify you're logged in viavagrant login`. Also, please double-check the name. The expanded
URL and error message are shown below:

URL: ["https://atlas.hashicorp.com/geerlingguy/ubuntu1604"]
Error:
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Summary

Running vagrant up returned "The box geerlingguy/ubuntu1604 could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog."

The solution was to run: sudo rm /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl

I'm posting this here so that others who face the same issue can find a solution more easily.

[geerlingguy]

@ashabed - Vagrant 1.8.7 had some major issues, and not finding any boxes was one of them. Please either downgrade to 1.8.6 or upgrade to 1.9.0/1.9.1 to resolve this issue.

[geerlingguy]

And see:

• 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1604' could not be found #1021
• The box 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1604' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog. #1010
• The box 'geerlingguy/ubuntu1404' could not be found. #985
• Various issues: box download, networking, vagrant up - caused by Vagrant 1.8.7 or VirtualBox 5.1.8 #981

This issue has been a scourge for the past couple months :(