Hi,

I have some troubles importing attributes at first run with chef-clietn 11 for windows. I have a json file “c:/chef/first-boot.json” with similar content

{“company”:{“company_name”:“My Company”},“run_list”:[“role[server_role]”]}

I start the client with this line

chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb -j c:/chef/first-boot.json

I have a role, which is applied correctly and all recipes for that role are started to compile and run. However, if I want to use the “company” attribute at the first run, the attribute is missing (for example node[:company][:company_name] gives me “NoMethodError”, because node[:company] do not exist). If I do not use this attribute (i.e. all recipes pass trough the first run), the attribute node[:company] appears in the chef server and I can use it on the next run.

This method for first run attributes works well on linux chef-client. There I’m able to use the node[:company] attribute on the first run without any problems.

Am I doing something wrong or there is some limitation for chef-client for windows?

Here is my log from the console

chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb -j c:/chef/first-boot.json -E dev INFO: Chef 11.4.0 INFO: Client key c:/chef/client.pem is not present – registering INFO: Setting the run_list to [“role[server_role]”] from JSON INFO: Run List is [role[server_role]] INFO: Run List expands to [testbook::compnay_set] INFO: Starting Chef Run for node01 INFO: Running start handlers INFO: Start handlers complete. INFO: Loading cookbooks [testbook] Synchronizing Cookbooks: – sag_base – testbook Compiling Cookbooks… ================================================================================ Recipe Compile Error in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/testbook/recipes/compnay_set.rb ================================================================================ NoMethodError

undefined method `[]‘ for nil:NilClass

Cookbook Trace:

c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/testbook/recipes/install_dbc.rb:8:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/testbook/recipes/install_dbc.rb: … 7: 8>> name = node[:company][:company_name] 9: …

ERROR: Running exception handlers FATAL: Saving node information to c:/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json ERROR: Exception handlers complete Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to c:/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]‘ for nil:NilClass

I am trying to install Munin through hosted Chef on a Vagrant VM. When installing the Munin Client, it performs a search for the Munin Servers.

munin_servers = search(:node, "role:#{node['munin']['server_role']} AND chef_environment:#{node.chef_environment}")

However, this search is failing, with a 400 “Bad Request”. I did a quick check, and node[‘munin’][‘server_role’] is nil.

But how can that be? It defines what it is in the Cookbooks attribute file. It sets it to “Monitoring”. I wanted to change that, so in the my Role I have:

{
  "name": "munin-node",
  "description": "",
  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
  "default_attributes": {
    "munin": {
      "server_role": "munin-server"
    }
  },
  "override_attributes": {
  },
  "chef_type": "role",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[munin::client]"
  ],
  "env_run_lists": {
  }
}

I define node[‘munin’][‘server_role’] in that file. In fact, I went as far as to print out the entire node object:

node.each do |k, v|
  puts "Key: #{k} and V: #{v}"
end

And it shows:

Key: munin and V: {"sysadmin_email"=>"ethan@cloudmine.me", "server_role"=>"munin-server", "server_auth_method"=>"htpasswd", "web_server"=>"apache", "web_server_port"=>8080, "basedir"=>"/etc/munin", "plugin_dir"=>"/usr/share/munin/plugins", "docroot"=>"/var/www/munin", "dbdir"=>"/var/lib/munin", "root"=>{"group"=>"root"}, "plugins"=>"/etc/munin/plugins", "tmpldir"=>"/etc/munin/templates", "max_graph_jobs"=>"6", "max_cgi_graph_jobs"=>"6", "max_processes"=>nil}

I see it! I see my server_role has been defined! It’s right here! So why is it nil when I access it? What is happening?

Chef Workstation Version: 10.24.0 Chef-Client Version: 10.24.0 Ruby Version: 1.9.3