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 # Debugging Packer Builds
 
+Using `packer build -on-error=ask` allows you to inspect failures and try out
+solutions before restarting the build.
+
 For remote builds with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services AMIs, debugging
 a Packer build can be eased greatly with `packer build -debug`. This disables
 parallelization and enables debug mode.