"Could not load plugin" – regression between 2.2.1 and 2.3.0

[lukiffer]

When using provider version 2.3.0, the provider plugin fails to load.

Error: Could not load plugin
...
Failed to retrieve schema from provider
"registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/random": rpc error: code = Unavailable desc =
connection closed

Terraform Version

Reproduced on both 0.12.29 and 0.13.2

Affected Resource(s)

It appears to be a provider issue (or potentially a plugin SDK issue) not related to a specific resource, but will use random_id for the sake of example.

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "random" {
  version = "2.3.0"
}

resource "random_id" "test" {
  byte_length = 8
}

output "test" {
  value = random_id.test.b64_std
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/lukiffer/b9b86ccb0fb50b658b1d297d1e221f22

To highlight a specific set of outputs:

2020/09/03 03:51:19 [INFO] Go runtime version: go1.14.7

2020-09-03T03:51:19.508-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: plugin address: address=/var/folders/0s/bbgtj68j187fdpfggtzgqr8r0000gn/T/plugin077377841 network=unix timestamp=2020-09-03T03:51:19.508-0500
2020-09-03T03:51:19.508-0500 [DEBUG] plugin: using plugin: version=5
2020-09-03T03:51:19.606-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: SIGILL: illegal instruction
2020-09-03T03:51:19.606-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: PC=0x1063d90 m=0 sigcode=1

2020-09-03T03:51:19.606-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: goroutine 54 [running]:
2020-09-03T03:51:19.606-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: runtime.asyncPreempt()
2020-09-03T03:51:19.606-0500 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-random_v2.3.0_x4: 	/opt/goenv/versions/1.14.0/src/runtime/preempt_amd64.s:8 fp=0xc00056b1e8 sp=0xc00056b1e0 pc=0x1063d90

It appears that the go runtime is 1.14.7 but the provider was compiled against 1.14.0 – not typically an issue, but there was an issue with 1.14.0 not guarding a specific instruction or feature not available on some CPUs that was fixed in 1.14.1. (See golang/go#37478 and https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/221058/)

I believe all that should be required is that the plugin be compiled with go1.14.1 or later, but I haven't tested this.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform init && terraform plan

[diegoaguilar]

@lukiffer did you figure out this?

[lukiffer]

@diegoaguilar we're skirting this issue by pinning the provider version. Less than ideal but it works.

[kmoe]

Interesting bug report, thank you.

I was unable to reproduce this with Go 1.14.7 on relatively new linux/amd64 or darwin/amd64 machines, and unfortunately I don't have a pre-AVX machine to hand to test this. However, if you can verify that building with Go 1.14.1 or later solves this problem for you, I'm happy to release a v2.3.1 of this provider compiled with Go >=1.14.1.

[lukiffer]

@kmoe thanks, I'll try it out this weekend.

[lukiffer]

I built master locally using go 1.15.3 and it works on both a pre-AVX machine and a AVX2 machine:

Pre-AVX (Mid-2010 MacPro)

$ sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5650  @ 2.67GHz

$ go version
go version go1.14.7 darwin/amd64

$ terraform apply

An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  + create

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # random_id.test will be created
  + resource "random_id" "test" {
      + b64_std     = (known after apply)
      + b64_url     = (known after apply)
      + byte_length = 8
      + dec         = (known after apply)
      + hex         = (known after apply)
      + id          = (known after apply)
    }

Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

random_id.test: Creating...
random_id.test: Creation complete after 0s [id=SBCw_k6odGg]

Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

test = SBCw/k6odGg=

With AVX2 (Current MacBook Pro)

$ sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz

$ go version
go version go1.15.3 darwin/amd64

$ terraform apply

An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  + create

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # random_id.test will be created
  + resource "random_id" "test" {
      + b64_std     = (known after apply)
      + b64_url     = (known after apply)
      + byte_length = 8
      + dec         = (known after apply)
      + hex         = (known after apply)
      + id          = (known after apply)
    }

Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

random_id.test: Creating...
random_id.test: Creation complete after 0s [id=w7FYRyhBo7U]

Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

test = w7FYRyhBo7U=

[kmoe]

v2.3.1 is released, which should fix this issue.

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