By Morgan Lucas

An exercise in Troubleshooting

STATUS: Solved

<aside> 💡 Normal operations have resumed. Skip the walk-through and see the resolution here.

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I am not a new Terraform user - These issues started a week ago.

Getting a lot of different errors, from a sudden lack of permissions, to mostly tfstate and lock files not updating, and files not being found despite being in the same folder.

<aside> 💡 Error acquiring the state lock is what’s showing up often.

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It’s often

• not found (the file is empty) terraform show reveals no state [click here]
• not reinitialized with a terraform plan or init

This is in Windows 10, version 1.0.10

Other Information:

• I do have several folders with Terraform projects in them. Some still have all the appropriate files. I’m showing the ones that don't’.
• The issues are across AWS and Azure configurations.
• I did update it recently, which may have done something. I went through both that nonsense with the PATH and putting it in Program Files as well as through Powershell (easier).