title: Vagrant is stuck. Authentication failure. Retrying date: 2019-10-29 16:50:35 categories: [devops] tags: [vagrant]
Problem
When running "vagrant up" to bring up a Vagrant Virtualbox, it can't authenticate. It's retries forever and eventually gives up: default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...
Solution
You can unstick the vagrant machine, but it involves some careful copying and pasting. Find the IdentityFile vagrant is using...