From 196d3bbcab5cba9f87a9e3a2fdaebb8154aa3656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:51:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] core: improve bad boot state error [GH-2187] --- templates/locales/en.yml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/templates/locales/en.yml b/templates/locales/en.yml index cd9d8d57b..dec8dc112 100644 --- a/templates/locales/en.yml +++ b/templates/locales/en.yml @@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ en: to boot. Valid states are '%{valid}'. The machine is in the '%{invalid}' state. Please verify everything is configured properly and try again. + + If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it, + it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the + GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can retrieve. + For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run `vagrant up` while the + VirtualBox GUI is open. boot_timeout: |- Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot. This means that Vagrant was unable to communicate with the guest machine within