terraform provider_error ai_generated true

Error: Plugin did not respond: plugin process exited unexpectedly

ID: terraform/plugin-crashed

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78%Fix Rate
82%Confidence
50Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
1 active — — —

Root Cause

Terraform provider plugin crashed. Version incompatibility or resource limit.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 88% success Update provider to latest patch version in required_providers block 
    terraform init -upgrade

    Sources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/init

  2. 82% success Check system resources (memory) — large state files can OOM the provider 
    # Enable debug logging to find crash reason:
export TF_LOG=DEBUG
export TF_LOG_PATH=./terraform-debug.log
terraform plan
# Check the log for panic/crash stack traces:
grep -A 20 'panic\|SIGILL\|SIGSEGV' terraform-debug.log

    Sources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/providers

  3. 80% success Clear the provider cache and reinitialize with upgraded provider 
    rm -rf .terraform/providers
rm .terraform.lock.hcl
terraform init -upgrade
# This downloads fresh provider binaries and updates the lock file

    Sources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/init

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Downgrade Terraform version 55% fail

    May introduce other incompatibilities

  2. Remove .terraform and reinitialize 60% fail

    Downloads same broken version again

Error Chain

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