[chef] Re: Re: Completely failing with knife-windows + winrm

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 11/21/2012 5:20 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any success with knife-windows (0.5.10
> > from 'gem install')? I'm royally failing, and knife's
> > -V argument is proving useless as usual.
> >
> > $ knife bootstrap windows winrm jblaine-win.our.org
> > <http://jblaine-win.our.org> -x jblaine -R
> > OUR.ORG -V --bootstrap-proxy http://gatekeeper.our.org:80/
> > Bootstrapping Chef on jblaine-win.our.org <http://jblaine-win.our.org>
> > jblaine-win.our.org <http://jblaine-win.our.org> "Rendering
> > 'C:\Users\JBLAIN~1.OUR\AppData\Local\Temp\bootstrap-5398-1353533929.bat'
> > chunk 1"
> > ERROR: TypeError: can't convert nil into String
> >
> > Remarkably, if I go find the batch file on jblaine-win and run
> > it, it works fine.
> >
> > Let's see if I can do anything?
> >
> > $ knife winrm jblaine-win.our.org <http://jblaine-win.our.org> "net
> > use *" -m -x jblaine -R OUR.ORG -V
> > ERROR: WinRM::WinRMWebServiceError: Bad SOAP Packet returned. Sometimes
> > a retry will solve this error.
> > $ knife winrm jblaine-win.our.org <http://jblaine-win.our.org> "net
> > use *" -m -x jblaine -R OUR.ORG -V
> > ERROR: WinRM::WinRMWebServiceError: Bad SOAP Packet returned. Sometimes
> > a retry will solve this error.
> > $ knife winrm jblaine-win.our.org <http://jblaine-win.our.org> "net
> > use *" -m -x jblaine -R OUR.ORG -V
> > ERROR: WinRM::WinRMWebServiceError: Bad SOAP Packet returned. Sometimes
> > a retry will solve this error.
>
> What version of windows is this?

Windows 2008 Server R2

> Also, you can give knife the `-V` argument twice for more information,
> but this won't help if the winrm library doesn't provide more debug
> output or knife-winrm isn't wired up to increase winrm's verbosity.

Handy. Thanks.

Here's the latest with -VV.

knife bootstrap windows winrm jblaine-win.our.org -x jblaine -R OUR.ORG 
-VV --bootstrap-proxy http://gatekeeper.our.org:80/
...stuff...
DEBUG: Adding jblaine-win.our.org
DEBUG: :session => :init
DEBUG: :relay_to_servers => cmd.exe /C echo "Rendering 
'%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat' chunk 5" && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.rU3sMcdSuHVB9pSTUFF...du0gkPTv2N0) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.hAH8BV2e3+0eJSTUFF...ni/hRCC) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.mpic27OBPcDNxdobwNKSTUFF...OFBgSr2Wjo5WyDg) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.3j8k2ZOFAlVxiDVSJoTSTUFF...gIufxu7PiXzq50) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.7/9kgETRB75wdeiwlzSTUFF...xJfhGb0nD/y4j) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.SwtNrxz4OwXSTUFF...Qu69UkMAFT9G) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.4HezEwKBgQCIs4NSTUFF...qPlpZnHGNaG) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.NzurCPfdKduWSTUFF...D6EeGTTLDrRFS) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.AIPOQPZ/ah7p7n2CMUZTS+eBfHWTcT/Giz6ML9G15qcO68m0jRTTAQ==) && 
>> %TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.-----END RSA PRIVATE 
KEY-----) && >> %TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.^)) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.^> C:\chef\client.rb ^() && 
>> %TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.log_level 
:info) && >> %TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.log_location     STDOUT) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.chef_server_url 
"http://rcf-cm-master.our.org:4000";) && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.validation_client_name 
"chef-validator") && >> %TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat 
(echo.echo.client_key        "c:/chef/client.pem") && >> 
%TEMP%\bootstrap-7422-1353536911.bat (echo.echo.validation_key 
"c:/chef/validation.pem")
DEBUG: :relayed => jblaine-win.our.org
DEBUG: jblaine-win.our.org => :run_command
DEBUG: jblaine-win.our.org[8DC6AEEA-C139-4587-AABF-23BCEF83D936] => 
:shell_open
ERROR: TypeError: can't convert nil into String

And then:

$ knife winrm 'jblaine-win.our.org' "net use *" -m -x jblaine -R OUR.ORG -VV
DEBUG: Using configuration from /home/jblaine/.chef/knife.rb
DEBUG: Adding jblaine-win.our.org
DEBUG: :session => :init
DEBUG: :relay_to_servers => net use *
DEBUG: :relayed => jblaine-win.our.org
DEBUG: jblaine-win.our.org => :run_command
DEBUG: jblaine-win.our.org[DD0618B7-575A-4608-8B6C-736EA72381BF] => 
:shell_open
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/winrm-1.1.2/lib/winrm/winrm_service.rb:382:in 
`rescue in send_message': Bad SOAP Packet returned. Sometimes a retry 
will solve this error. (WinRM::WinRMWebServiceError)
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/winrm-1.1.2/lib/winrm/winrm_service.rb:370:in 
`send_message'
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/winrm-1.1.2/lib/winrm/winrm_service.rb:136:in 
`run_command'
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/em-winrm-0.5.4/lib/em-winrm/shell.rb:60:in 
`run_command'
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/em-winrm-0.5.4/lib/em-winrm/server.rb:58:in 
`block (2 levels) in run_command'
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.0.beta.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:1009:in 
`call'
        from 
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.0.beta.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:1009:in 
`block in spawn_threadpool'