[chef] Re: chef-solo not finding the users cookbook.

[AJ Christensen < >]

You have a typo

On 31 December 2011 17:28, Tim Uckun 
<
 >
 wrote:
> I must be doing something dumb but I am getting the following error
> when I try to run chef solo
>
>
>  chef-solo -c config/solo.rb  -j dna/solo.json
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/systemu-2.2.0/lib/systemu.rb:29:
> Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config.
>
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Setting the run_list to
> ["role[base]"] from JSON
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Run List is [role[base]]
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Run List expands to [sudo,
> apt, git, build-essential, recipe[users::sysadmins]
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Starting Chef Run for localhost
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Running start handlers
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] INFO: Start handlers complete.
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] ERROR: Running exception handlers
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
> /media/sf_tim/source/digital_dialogue/dd-infrastructure/chef-stacktrace.out
> [Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:24:39 +1300] FATAL:
> Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound: Cookbook recipe[users not found.
> If you're loading recipe[users from another cookbook, make sure you
> configure the dependency in your metadata

See how it says recipe[users not found? I guess the exception could be
enhanced a little.

>
> The cookbook is there in the cookbooks directory and is untouched. The
> base role looks like this
>
>
> name "base"
> description "Base role applied to all nodes."
>
> run_list(
>  "recipe[sudo]",
>  "recipe[apt]",
>  "recipe[git]",
>  "recipe[build-essential]" ,
>  "recipe[users::sysadmins"

You've missed the ending right-square brace, here.

Should be:

"recipe[users::sysadmins]"

Cheers,

AJ

> )
> override_attributes(
>  :authorization => {
>    :sudo => {
>      :users => ["ubuntu"],
>      :passwordless => true
>    }
>  }
> )
>
>
> the solo.json looks like this
>
>  { "run_list": [ "role[base]"] }
>
>
> So what gives?