[chef] bootstrapping Chef server fails with "no valid gem 'chef-server-api' (= 11.0.0)"

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hi Phil,

We haven't released to the community site the chef-server cookbook version for chef 11.

You can get it from the GitHub repository. We will release the new version (2.0.0) later today. 

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server

Cheers!

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Joshua Timberman

On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 15:59, Phil Mocek wrote:

I would appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting my failed

Chef server bootstrap process.

I installed chef-solo by running the [Omnibus installer script][1],

then, as described on the [Installing Chef Server using Chef Solo

page][2], I ran chef-solo with a JSON attributes file referencing

the rubygems-install recipe of the chef-server cookbook. I'm using

version 1.1.1 of that cookbook.

The [output from chef-solo][3] includes the following:

Recipe: chef-server::rubygems-install

* gem_package[chef-server-api] action install

================================================================================

Error executing action `install` on resource 'gem_package[chef-server-api]'

================================================================================

Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed

------------------------------------

Expected process to exit with [0], but received '2'

---- Begin output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----

STDOUT:

STDERR: ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'chef-server-api' (= 11.0.0) in any repository

ERROR: Possible alternatives: chef-server-api

---- End output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----

Ran /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" returned 2

Resource Declaration:

---------------------

# In /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb

83: gem_package gem do

84: version node['chef_packages']['chef']['version']

85: end

86: end

Compiled Resource:

------------------

# Declared in /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb:83:in `block in from_file'

gem_package("chef-server-api") do

provider Chef::Provider::Package::Rubygems

action :install

retries 0

retry_delay 2

package_name "chef-server-api"

version "11.0.0"

cookbook_name :"chef-server"

recipe_name "rubygems-install"

gem_binary "/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem"

end

I'm running chef-solo 11.0.0:

:~# chef-solo --version

Chef: 11.0.0

:~# which chef-solo

/usr/bin/chef-solo

:~# ll /usr/bin/chef-solo

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Feb 4 22:03 /usr/bin/chef-solo -> /opt/chef/bin/chef-solo*

Thanks in advance for any guidance. I'll follow up here with

resolution.

References:

[1]: <https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh>

[2]: <http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo>

[3]: <https://gist.github.com/4710420>

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Phil Mocek

http://mocek.org/