[chef] Re: Re: Installing on Windows

[Landon < >]

I had some issues getting this to work, so I started over on both the
server and the client and it works now.  I think this is what
happened:
I installed using the deprecated bootstrap::server but this installed
chef 0.9.4 where the client had 0.9.6.  After installing I made sure
that everything was the most up to date version and purged the old.
Everything started behaving MUCH better.

Thanks for the help.  I am sure that I will be back with more
questions now that I have the basics setup!

Landon

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Landon 
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> Got it.  I will give that a try and let you know how it goes.  Thanks
> for the pointer!
>
> Landon
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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>  wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> It looks like fetching a set of bootstrap cookbooks isn't going to
>> work on windows, at least not the way we do it currently. That said,
>> the bootstrap is totally optional for the client. If you have a
>> chef-server working already, I'd recommend you just copy the
>> validation.pem over and run chef-client. Since you have chef installed
>> you're almost done.
>>
>> Let us know how it turns out..
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:08 PM,  
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>>  wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> I am trying to get Chef client working on windows.  It's definitely not 
>>> easy
>>> but if it's doable, then I am going to do it ;-)
>>>
>>> My environment looks like:
>>> ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249
>>> gem 1.3.7
>>>
>>> I had to install a couple of gems manually (windows-pr and another that 
>>> slips
>>> the mind right now) but now I am stuck trying to bootstrap. They key issue
>>> appears to be popen4 (full command that I ran below):
>>> `popen4': uninitialized constant Fcntl::F_SETFD (NameError)
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?  I tried gem install popen4 
>>> and
>>> that didn't help.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> Here is the full command and stack trace that I am using:
>>> chef-solo -c solo.rb -j chef.json -r
>>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz
>>>
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:242:in
>>> `popen4': uninitialized constant Fcntl::F_SETFD (NameError)
>>>        from
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:155:in
>>> `output_of_command'
>>>        from 
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/
>>> command.rb:144:in `chdir'
>>>        from 
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/
>>> command.rb:144:in `output_of_command'
>>>        from
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:121:in
>>> `run_command'
>>>        from
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/solo.rb:168:in
>>> `reconfigure'
>>>        from
>>> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef0.9.6/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:60:in
>>> `run'
>>>        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.6/bin/chef-solo:25
>>>        from C:/Ruby187/bin/chef-solo:19:in `load'
>>>        from C:/Ruby187/bin/chef-solo:19
>>>
>>
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