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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, July 6, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Denis Haskin wrote:

> 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 
> 
 
>  
> (mailto:
 ):zmxmusic/zmx2.git
>  master ----
> STDOUT:

Did you rule this out?
 
> 
> STDERR: Could not create directory '/nonexistent/.ssh'.
> Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts 
> (/nonexistent/.ssh/known_hosts).

Looks like SSH is configured to keep a known_hosts file, and failed when 
trying to update it. If you create the requisite directory, does it work?


-- 
Dan DeLeo