[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New user feedback and questions

[Tim Uckun < >]

>
> Cool! We'd love to hear about your successes with Chef. If you have any
> issues, post to the list, or ask on IRC.


Today I got the client set up from the apt repository using this
bootstrap script

sudo echo "deb http://apt.opscode.com/ jaunty universe" ;>
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/opscode.list
wget -qO - 
http://apt.opscode.com/
 
 | sudo
apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get -y  install ohai chef

chef-client --server https://chef.myserver.com

That installed all the dependencies and put chef-client and ohai in /usr/bin.

I then downloaded the opscode cookbooks to study them and wrote my own
"chef-client" cookbook just to try it.  I copied the opscode cookbook
and hacked away at it all day.

Being an ornery sort of person I decided to really change the way the
recipe was written to see what would happen and how chef would react
to really broken cookbooks.

Long story short...

I was able to get the client and the server talking each other.
I was able to deploy my cookbooks
My cookbooks all passed the syntax check.
My cookbook is failing to run on the client with a cryptic message
which I have yet to hunt down.

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/mixin/template.rb:33:in `render_template':
undefined local variable or method `client' for
#<Erubis::Context:0xb76d2010> (Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/provider/template.rb:102:in 
`action_create'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/runner.rb:85:in `send'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/runner.rb:85:in `converge'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/runner.rb:83:in `each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/runner.rb:83:in `converge'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/resource_collection.rb:58:in `each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/resource_collection.rb:57:in `each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/runner.rb:61:in `converge'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:382:in `converge'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:82:in `run'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:186:in 
`run_application'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:178:in `loop'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:178:in 
`run_application'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application.rb:57:in `run'
        from /usr/bin/chef-client:25


Obviously one of my templates has an error in it.

BTW can chef email me the error? I would prefer that every time a
client had a problem it email me the message.