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“vagrant halt” dies with error “The SSH connection was unexpectedly closed by the remote end…” But the machine successfully shuts down. (

I have 6 VM’s running Ubuntu 16.04, the host is also Ubuntu 16.04. Vagrant version 1.8.1

When I run vagrant halt, I get the error:

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Watching the VirtualBox GUI I see the VM shuts down. But the vagrant script stops and does not try and shut down the other VMs. I have to run “vagrant halt” once for each VM I have running. Each time it shuts down the next VM, but then dies again with the SSH connection error.

When I boot up the VMs again, I have not noticed any problems with them.

I found a suggestion to install libpam-systemd: “otherwise networking stops before sshd and the connection gets left open.” I used apt to install libpam-systemd on each VM, but I’m still getting the SSH connection error.

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Answer

It was a vagrant bug fixed in later versions. Instead of using the ubuntu apt package I installed the latest from vagrants website.

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