Bundler error whilst trying to install Varying Vagrant Vagrants and Vagrant plug-ins

Question

I am new to Vagrant, Laraval, and Varying Vagrant Vagrants. I am attempting to get this environment installed and operational. I am on Mac OS X 10.11.6.

I am following the instructions posted here.

Step 1 is install VirtualBox 5.0.x. Done that.

Step 2 is install Vagrant 1.8.5. Done that.

After installing Vagrant with the pgk file I downloaded... I created a directory at ~/vagrant. In that directory I did a vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 command. I then vagrant up.

Step 3 Install the vagrant-hostsupdater plugin with vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater

When I try to do this, I get the following error:

Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins, reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network issues. The error from Bundler is:

There was an error while trying to write to /Users/jonathan/.bundle/cache/compact_index/gems.hashicorp.com.443.68db9b3ad4be8461ccdecca2ae96d12a. It is likely that you need to grant write permissions for that path.

Warning: this Gemfile contains multiple primary sources. Using source more than once without a block is a security risk, and may result in installing unexpected gems. To resolve this warning, use a block to indicate which gems should come from the secondary source. To upgrade this warning to an error, run bundle config disable_multisource true.

Just to see if it made any difference, I changed the permissions on that file to 777. The same error occurs though.

I also get this error if I try to install any of the other plugins mentioned in the instructions on the VVV site.

I have no idea why this occurs, or what to do about it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Whilst I don't know the original cause of the issue, the came to light through my discussion (in comments) with Frédéric Henri.

For some reason the permissions on the ~/.bundle file had the owner set to root.

This was preventing the Vagrant plug-ins from installing. To correct this issue I changed the owner to my username.

From the home folder (cd ~/) use the following command, sudo chown -R <USERNAME>:staff ~/.bundle

This resolved the issue.