[chef] Re: Re: chef solo - Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing: Icannotread /etc/chef/client.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!

[David Montgomery < >]

I do have hosted chef but I just want to bootstrap my local machine
with recipes.  Can I just knife bootstrap 106.187.95.170 -x root -P
temp --sudo -r "role[monitor_server]" -E local -N localhost

Or should i use chef solo.  What is best practice here?

Thanks

file_cache_path "/var/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/home/ubuntu/workspace/htChef/chef-repo/cookbooks"
data_bag_path 
"/home/ubuntu/workspace/htChef/chef-repo/data_bags/ht_data_bag/ht.json"
environment "local"

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Jeremiah Snapp
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 wrote:
> I don't know why chef-solo would be looking for the client.pem.  That should
> only be needed if you were running chef-client to connect to a chef server.
> Can we see your solo.rb contents?
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> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:36 AM, David Montgomery
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>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running chef solo based on this wiki.  I am new to chef solo.
>>
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Solo
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>>
>> I get this error....  What did I miss fro the wiki?
>>
>> sudo chef-solo -c ~/workspace/htChef/chef-repo/solo/solo.rb -j
>> ~/workspace/htChef/chef-repo/solo/node.json
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.14.4 ***
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to
>> ["recipe[ht_server]"] from JSON
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[ht_server]]
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Run List expands to [ht_server]
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for ubuntu
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Running start handlers
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] WARN: Failed to read the private key
>> /etc/chef/client.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory -
>> /etc/chef/client.pem>
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
>> /var/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out
>> [2012-10-11T22:03:21+08:00] FATAL:
>> Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing: I cannot read
>> /etc/chef/client.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!
>>
>> Thanks
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