Monday, January 29, 2018

GCP VM not available via SSH - ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255]

Getting this error after upgrading a VM:
$ gcloud compute ssh myvm -- -vvv
OpenSSH_***, LibreSSL *.*.*
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to *.*.*.* [*.*.*.*] port *.
debug1: connect to address *.*.*.* port *: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host *.*.*.* port *: Connection refused
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255].
Went ahead and activated the serial port access:
gcloud compute instances add-metadata myvm \
    --metadata=serial-port-enable=1
Accessed it from Google Cloud Console "Remote Access / Connect to Serial Console". Without doing anything else I was able to connect to the VM. I should assume that "Connect to Serial Console" restarts ssh.

Not using Selenium but got Error retrieving a new session from the selenium server - ECONNREFUSED

I have seen this issue in the past I believe with Protractor but today it was NightWatch which is configured to use just ChromeDriver without Selenium and yet was spitting out the below:
Error retrieving a new session from the selenium server Connection refused! Is selenium server started? { Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:9515 at Object._errnoException (util.js:1024:11) at _exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1046:20) at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1182:14) code: 'ECONNREFUSED', errno: 'ECONNREFUSED', syscall: 'connect', address: '127.0.0.1', port: 9515 }
The issue was an outdated chromedriver version. Check your chrome version and use the correct driver per driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

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