[chef] Re: knife error

[Motiejus Jakštys < >]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:33 PM, David Montgomery
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In an automated python  script under runit supervision, I am getting
> this error and I have no idea what it means.  The only knife command I
> am using via a os.system call is knife client delete mynode --yes
>
> Any ideas?  running the command manually from the command line works.
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:51:in
> `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
>        from 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/knife/core/subcommand_loader.rb:51:in

Offending line in subcommand_loader.rb:51:
user_specific_files.concat Dir.glob(File.join(env['HOME'], '.chef',
'plugins', 'knife', '*.rb'))

I suspect env['HOME'] is nil. Set HOME=/some/existing/directory and try again.

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Motiejus Jakštys