The thrift cookbook defaults to 0.6.0, and to the tds.net apache mirror. In the apache master and mirrors 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 are no longer on the servers. Those versions are distributed via archive.apache.org. On archive.apache.org the path to the thrift director is different.

I needed to do this:

origin_path = "thrift" if node['thrift']['mirror'] == "archive.apache.org" origin_path = "dist/thrift" end remote_file "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/thrift-#{version}.tar.gz" do source "http://#{node['thrift']['mirror']}/#{origin_path}/#{version}/thrift-#{version}.tar.gz" checksum node['thrift']['checksum'] end

• edit: Also, the preview of the above markdown pre-formatted block looks OK, but the resulting text doesn’t look so good.

Hi. Recently installed Chef 11.0.4 and i’m trying to get role listing with command ‘knife role list’. Sometimes it works bur sometimes i get error

$ knife -v Chef: 11.4.0

$ chef-client -v Chef: 11.4.0

$ knife role list /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife/cookbook_upload.rb:25: superclass mismatch for class CookbookUpload (TypeError)

from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:37:in `load'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:37:in `load_commands'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:37:in `each'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:37:in `load_commands'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife.rb:119:in `load_commands'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/knife.rb:167:in `run'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/lib/chef/application/knife.rb:123:in `run'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.4.0/bin/knife:25
from /usr/local/bin/knife:19:in `load'
from /usr/local/bin/knife:19

I have no idea what that means. Need help. Thanks.

Regards, marek

Hi guys,

I’m new on chef and have spent some days reading documentation. And saw some examples where on a Definition there is an include_recipe “somename” sentence.

On the doc, cant uderstand 100% the Definitions and utility, can someone bring me some light on this?

Thanks!

I am a noob….

I have been able to successfully bootstrap (add node) for both ubuntu 10.04 & oel5.4, but have had trouble with CentOS 5.4

For ubuntu I used: knife bootstrap <IP> -u <user> -P <password> —sudo

For oel: knife bootstrap <IP> -u root -P <password> -d centos5-gems

I tried the oel command on centos but I get an error:

centos1 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/cipher.rb:22 centos1 : centos1 Cipher is not a module centos1 ( centos1 TypeError centos1 ) centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:20 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/https.rb:102 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:23 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/search/query.rb:21 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/language.rb:19 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:22 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/resource/file.rb:19 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/provider/file.rb:21 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/provider/cookbook_file.rb:20 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef/providers.rb:20 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/../lib/chef.rb:25 centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' centos1 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' centos1 from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/chef-client:23 centos1 from /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load' centos1 from /usr/bin/chef-client:19

I’m trying to install nginx on an amazon ec2 instance but I’m receiving an “Cannot find a resource for runit_service on ubuntu version 12.04” error.

What’s strange is that I am able to configure nginx in a virtual machine node managed by vagrant (running $ vagrant provision node_name).

My run list:

“run_list”: [

"recipe[runit]",
"recipe[nginx::source]" ]

Nginx configuration:

“nginx”: {

"install_method": "source",
"default_site_enabled": "false",
"user" : "www-data",
"source": {
  "modules": ["http_gzip_static_module","http_ssl_module"]
},
"version": "1.3.15"   }

I’m running

chef-solo -c /tmp/chef-solo/solo.rb -j /tmp/chef-solo/nodes/node.json

from the terminal.

This is the error stack trace: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8fe2dfe655ce0a3d51e0

I’ll appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks.

When using hosted chef with multiple organizations (where organization is the right way to differentiate projects as opposed to setting environments) what is the best approach for managing the client configuration files?

I have separate organizations, each with their own validation key, and generated knife.rb configuration. On my workstations I have separate chef repos and chef client configuration directories for each organization.

But, how do I best manage /etc/chef/*?

I was thinking that I could create separate /etc/chef_ORGANIZATION directories to hold the appropriate configuration and validations, then just symlink /etc/chef to the org I’m working with.

Anyone have other suggestions on how to work with multiple orgs?

I’m having an issue where I run the following opscode cookbooks but I’m overriding the java “install_flavor” to use “oracle”.

{
    "run_list": [ "recipe[apt::default]",
        "recipe[java]",
        "recipe[tomcat]" ],
}

The initial java recipe installs oracle version of java however, tomcat also includes java which for some reason runs and installs and openjdk regardless of the following override.

"override_attributes": {
    "java": {
        "install_flavor": "oracle",
        "oracle" : {
            "accept_oracle_download_terms" : true
        }
    }
}

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help, Joe