Vault plugin tls init error: "no address for the vault found"

[calvn]

Environment:

• Vault Version: Vault v0.9.0 ('254d0ab784a2135d05badab044aae462da7de563')
• Operating System/Architecture: MacOS

Vault Config File:

ui = true

plugin_directory="/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins"
listener "tcp" {
 address = "127.0.0.1:8200"
 tls_disable = 1
}

storage "file" {
  path = "/tmp/vault/data"
}

Startup Log Output:

2017/11/27 04:24:21.945330 [DEBUG] plugin: starting plugin: path=/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen args=[/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen]
2017/11/27 04:24:21.948187 [DEBUG] plugin: waiting for RPC address: path=/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen
2017/11/27 04:24:21.954070 [ERROR] plugin.vault-secrets-gen: plugin tls init: error="no address for the vault found"
2017/11/27 04:24:21.955181 [DEBUG] plugin: plugin process exited: path=/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen
2017/11/27 04:24:21.955249 [ERROR] core: failed to run existence check: error=plugin exited before we could connect

Expected Behavior:

Vault should initialize the plugin backend.

Actual Behavior:

Backend fails to initialize due to tls init error:

2017/11/27 04:26:12.112126 [DEBUG] plugin: waiting for RPC address: path=/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen
2017/11/27 04:26:12.122844 [ERROR] plugin.vault-secrets-gen: plugin tls init: error="no address for the vault found"
2017/11/27 04:26:12.122923 [DEBUG] plugin: plugin process exited: path=/Users/cleung/code/tmp/vault_plugins/vault-secrets-gen
2017/11/27 04:26:12.123013 [ERROR] rollback: error rolling back: path=gen/ error=plugin exited before we could connect

Steps to Reproduce:

• Initialize
• Mount plugin backend
• Seal
• Unseal

Important Factoids:

References:

sethvargo/vault-secrets-gen#2

[briankassouf]

@calvn pretty sure this is happening because the api_addr config setting isn't set.

[briankassouf]

We should probably update the error message to be a little more clear here