[chef] Re: Re: Roles fail to load in chef-solo run_list

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Tom,

I don't know if you ever solved this, but I ran across the same thing and opened a bug about it.

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3918

TL;DR; -- if your roles file doesn't have the right json_class attribute then I believe Chef tries to interpret it as a regular Hash and explodes.

- Julian

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Tom < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I only include one role in the other. I don't see how that makes an infinite/dead loop. I don't include each role in each other.

Take the roles out of the run list so they are only recipes. Everything runs ok. Include one role in the other and run _one_ role, I get the hash error.

It seems more like chef cannot handle loading a sub-role.

On 25 September 2012 14:29, William Herry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

seem like a dead loop, role[minidnsmaster] included a role[yum-server] which included role[minidnsmaster] again

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Tom < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm trying to add an existing role to the run list of another role using chef-solo
Both roles run independently alone, but when I add one role to the run_list of the other I receive a Hash error.

roles:
---
 {
  "name": "yum-server",
  "chef_type": "role",
 
  "default_attributes": {
    "apache2": {
      "listen_ports": ["80", "443"],
      "default_site_enabled": false
    }
  },
  "run_list": [ "recipe[apache2]",
                "recipe[apache2::mod_ssl]",
                "recipe[apache2::yum-website]",
                "role[minidnsmaster]"
              ]
}
---
{
  "name": "minidnsmaster",
  "chef_type": "role",
 
  "default_attributes": {
    "bind": {
      "slaves": [ "10.39.102.20", "10.31.157.234" ]
    }
  },
 
  "run_list": [ "recipe[build-essential]",
                "recipe[sudo::bind]",
                "recipe[bind]",
                "recipe[bind::master]",
                "recipe[yum-server]",
                "recipe[yum-server::repos]",
                "recipe[yum-server::build_alfresco]",
                "recipe[yum-server::build_cloudportal]"
    ]
}
---
role[yum-server] fails to run as it is calling role[minidnsmaster] with this error:
---
2012-09-25T14:17:22+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.14.2 ***
[2012-09-25T14:17:23+01:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[apache2]", "recipe[apache2::mod_ssl]", "recipe[apache2::yum-website]", "role[minidnsmaster]"] from JSON

================================================================================
Error expanding the run_list:
================================================================================

Unexpected Error:
-----------------
NoMethodError: undefined method `run_list_for' for #<Hash:0x0000000287f4e0>

[2012-09-25T14:17:23+01:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/cache/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out
[2012-09-25T14:17:23+01:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `run_list_for' for #<Hash:0x0000000287f4e0>


I can see somewhere combining the JSON hashes is failing.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tom

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