[chef] Could not create directory '/nonexistent/.ssh'. (may be red herring)

[Denis Haskin < >]

I've been using the application cookbook just fine for a while for deployments of my rails app to AWS.  I deploy from a github private repo, using a deploy key at github (and have the private key for it in the app data bag).

I'm trying to do the first deploy of a major overhaul of my project; it's in a new github repo.  I've copied over all of my chef-repo files, created a new deploy key at github (see note below), updated the data bag on the chef server with the changes.

However, when I try to deploy I get the error below.  Suggestions on what I'm doing wrong, how to fix?

[Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:29:00 +0000] ERROR: deploy_revision[zmx_app] (application::rails line 155) has had an error

[Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:29:00 +0000] ERROR: deploy_revision[zmx_app] (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/application/recipes/rails.rb:155:in `from_file') had an error:

deploy_revision[zmx_app] (application::rails line 155) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '128'

---- Begin output of git ls-remote :zmxmusic/zmx2.git master ----

STDOUT: 

STDERR: Could not create directory '/nonexistent/.ssh'.

Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/nonexistent/.ssh/known_hosts).

ERROR: Repository not found.

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

---- End output of git ls-remote :zmxmusic/zmx2.git master ----

Ran git ls-remote :zmxmusic/zmx2.git master returned 128

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/shell_out.rb:206:in `invalid!'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/shell_out.rb:192:in `error!'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/mixin/shell_out.rb:36:in `shell_out!'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/provider/git.rb:189:in `remote_resolve_reference'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/provider/git.rb:178:in `target_revision'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/provider/deploy/revision.rb:46:in `release_slug'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/provider/deploy.rb:45:in `load_current_resource'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource.rb:439:in `run_action'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/runner.rb:45:in `run_action'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `block (2 levels) in converge'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `each'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `block in converge'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94:in `block in execute_each_resource'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in `call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in `call_iterator_block'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in `step'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in `iterate'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in `each_with_index'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in `execute_each_resource'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/runner.rb:76:in `converge'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/client.rb:312:in `converge'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/client.rb:160:in `run'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:239:in `block in run_application'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in `loop'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in `run_application'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/application.rb:67:in `run'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/chef-client:26:in `<top (required)>'

/usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'

/usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `<main>'

Here's the relevant part of my data bag's source JSON:

    "repository": " :zmxmusic/zmx2.git",

    "deploy_key":"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ...elided ... -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n",

I suspect maybe the new deploy key isn't being used?  Not sure why that would be, though.

Note re: the deploy key: I had to switch to a new deploy key as I didn't seem to be able to add my existing deploy key to be a deploy key for a different repository.

Thanks!

dwh