Cannot get trellis to work : getting ssh permission denied

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Hi there,

I am new to trellis, but I have been using Bedrock for a while now, and I am trying to get it work on both Silicon and Intel.

I would like to use it for local development at least and maybe replacing DeployHQ.

But let’s focus on silicon, here is the error I get after installing and creating a new site with trellis-cli and doing trellis provision development

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************[ERROR]: Task failed: Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

Task failed.

<<< caused by >>>

Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: [default]: UNREACHABLE! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Task failed: Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).”, “unreachable”: true}

Any help will be appreciated, many thanks.

Using :
trellis v1.14.0
lima v1.2.1
Sequoia 15.6.1

Regards,
Florian

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Weird. It looks like your SSH key isn’t working with the VM. Have you removed any ssh keys by any chance? If not, I’d probably just delete the VM and create a new one, then import the database again.

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As far as I remember, no, I haven’t.
I already tried deleting and creating a new vm with no luck.

I also checked the authorized_keys file on the vm, all the public key related to my private keys are present.

I also tried with vagrant and I get a different error :sleepy_face:

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I also tried this workaround without luck on trellis provision development.
The vm actually starts (make a mistake in my first post) and is visible using limactl list.

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I found the solution to my first issue :

It looks like the file located at trellis/.trellis/lima/inventory needed the ansible_ssh_private_key_file variable. Not sure if that’s normal.

Adding this variable, I can go further in the process but trellis provision development returns the following :

[ERROR]: The loop value must resolve to a ‘list’, not ‘str’.Origin: /Users/florian/Sites/colibri.ac/trellis/roles/common/tasks/main.yml:18:11
16 {{ item.site_keys | to_nice_yaml | indent(2) }}
17     when: item.site_keys | count
18     loop: “{{ site_keys_by_env_pair }}”^ column 11

Provide a list of items/templates, or a template resolving to a list.

fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The loop value must resolve to a ‘list’, not ‘str’.”}

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.19.2]
python version = 3.13.7

any idea ?

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Based on this, maybe the issue is your ansible-core version? Try updating to the latest version of Trellis and see if that solves it.

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Hi there,

After some time of research, I could get it working by forcing the trellis version to the last one :
trellis new --trellis-version v1.26.0 mywebsite.com

I don’t know why, brew is not installing the last version by default.

Also, when using v1.26.0, after running trellis vm start I am still not able to connect to the server using ssh.
I need to add
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.lima/_config/userto trellis/.trellis/lima/inventory file.
Not sure if it’s a known issue.

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Shouldn’t be necessary, worth taking a look at https://roots.io/trellis/docs/troubleshooting/#ssh-keys

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9 posts were split to a new topic: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied when trying to deploy

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Funnily enough I just saw the exact same sequence of errors when trying to provision a new droplet from an existing Trellis 1.25 environment — permission denied and then loop value must resolve to a list. Updating to Trellis 1.26.1 (and running trellis init again) fixed it for me as well, so thank you for posting this!