Message: Psych::SyntaxError: (/<snip>/config.yml): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 4 column 1

[caschbre]

Just downloaded the latest DrupalVM today, updated config.yml like I normally do and $ vagrant up gave me the following...

There was an error loading a Vagrantfile. The file being loaded
and the error message are shown below. This is usually caused by
a syntax error.

Path: /home/caschbre/virtualmachines/voyant/Vagrantfile
Line number: 0
Message: Psych::SyntaxError: (/<snip>/config.yml): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 4 column 1

[caschbre]

Hmm... so it looks like my alteration to the cron setup in config.yml was the culprit. Here's what I had changed.

from:
job: "drush -r {{ drupal_core_path }} core-cron"
to
job: "drush -r {{ drupal_core_path }} elysia-cron"

I'm guessing that's just not allowed?

[thom8]

@caschbre it's most likely a YAML syntax error, YAML is very fussy about spacing.

[geerlingguy]

@caschbre - Are you using tabs at all? YAML doesn't allow tabs to be used anywhere, and will do funny things if you have them (http://www.yaml.org/faq.html)

The job as formatted in your comment looks fine; I'm wondering if you might have your editor set to automatically force tabs. Also, make sure that spacing is correct for each config directive, e.g.

drupalvm_cron_jobs:
  - name: "Drupal Cron"
    minute: "*/30"
    job: "drush -r {{ drupal_core_path }} core-cron"

(there should be four spaces before minute and job, two spaces before the - name line).

[thom8]

YAML loves them spaces -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoOG6ZeyUI

[kamkejj]

I'm also getting the same error with the Cron Job section uncommented using the default settings

drupalvm_cron_jobs: []
  - name: "Drupal Cron",
    minute: "*/30",
    job: "drush -r {{ drupal_core_path }} core-cron"

Haven't figured out what the correct syntax should be.

[oxyc]

You need to remove the empty set [] declaration

drupalvm_cron_jobs:
  - name: "Drupal Cron"
    minute: "*/30"
    job: "drush -r {{ drupal_core_path }} core-cron"

[oxyc]

Also just noticed those trailing commas in the example. That doesn't look like valid yaml.