[chef] Re: Cryptic error message on first run of deploy_branch

[Jeffrey Hulten < >]

If I had to guess I would say that node['plinga-admintool'] wasn't set as a 
Hash for some reason. Once you look up node['plinga-admintool']['app_dir'] it 
fails.
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Jeffrey Hulten
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On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Cassiano Leal wrote:

> This error means that you tried to index (using method []) a Nil object. 
> Usually it means that what you thought was going to return an Array or a 
> Hash returned nil instead.
> 
> This: 
> 
>     NoMethodError: deploy_branch[/var/admintool]
> 
> means that deploy_branch is nil, meaning that either:
> 
> - It is supposed to be nil; or
> - It had not yet been set when it was called
> 
> On a side note, are you sure that deploy_branch is supposed to be a Hash, 
> rather than, say, a method? And if so, is this Hash supposed to have a key 
> '/var/admintool'? I'm just guessing about the semantics here since I'm not 
> familiar with the rest of the cookbook.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cassiano Leal
> 
> On Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 09:47, Loïc Antoine-Gombeaud wrote:
> 
>> Ohai there,
>> 
>> I'm getting the following error message when I use the deploy resource for 
>> the first time on a clean Vagrant machine:
>> 
>> FATAL: NoMethodError: deploy_branch[/var/admintool] 
>> (plinga-admintool::deploy line 14) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined 
>> method `[]' for nil:NilClass
>> 
>> And here's the relevant recipe snippet:
>> 
>> deploy_branch node['plinga-admintool']['app_dir'] do
>>   user                        "root"
>>   group                       "root"
>>   migrate                     false
>>   purge_before_symlink([])
>>   create_dirs_before_symlink([])
>>   symlink_before_migrate({})
>>   symlinks({})
>>   repository                  File.join(repo, branch)
>>   revision                    node['plinga-admintool']['svn_revision']
>>   scm_provider                Chef::Provider::Subversion
>>   svn_username                node['plinga-admintool']['svn_username']
>>   svn_password                node['plinga-admintool']['svn_password']
>>   action                      :deploy
>> end
>> 
>> Has anyone had a similar or related issue before? The only resource I 
>> could find is this IRC log (search for dbalatero), and... it doesn't 
>> really help, since no solution was suggested there.
>> I'm at a loss regarding how to debug, since I've triple-checked my code, 
>> all hints or pointers greatly appreciated! Otherwise my next step will be 
>> to hard-code logs in the deploy provider, but avoiding that pain would be 
>> better :)
>> 
>> More info:
>> - failed-run-data.json contains all the correct attributes (at least 
>> concerning this deployment)
>> - any subsequent chef-client run on the same machine works perfectly.
>> 
>> Cheers and thanks in advance,
>> 
>> -- 
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>> 
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