[chef] Re: community cookbooks fail after upgrade to chef11

[Kyle Sloan < >]

Thanks, that has solved the problem.

On May 28, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Kyle Sloan wrote:

New to chef/ruby so this may be something rather silly that I'm missing

I am using vagrant with berkshelf to work with testing cookbooks. They all 
work with the default vagrant box http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box, ;
which is running chef10

When I upgrade the chef version on the vagrant box with gem to 11.4.4, the 
cookbooks start to fail. I upgrade/do nothing else on the box but the gem 
update and then try vagrant reload.

Two of the books failing are community cookbooks -- tmux and ack, which are 
fairly basic.
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/tmux
https://github.com/cap10morgan/ack-cookbook

For tmux, I'm getting this error:
FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

The ack one is very similar

When I replace the recipe/default.rb with hard values instead of variables, 
everything works, so its almost like the attributes aren't being passed in? I 
am including the recipe from my "application cookbook" (maybe I need to set 
all the attributes in my application cookbook as include_recipe doesn't pull 
these? But it worked in chef10?)


from my_app_cookbook/recipes/default.rb

# none of these should require parameters/attributes, take the defaults
include_recipe "ack"
include_recipe "tmux"


Sorry this isn't much to go on, but can someone confirm that tmux/ack are 
working for on chef11, or point me in a direction?
The issue is that you're including these recipes from a 3rd cookbook that 
does not specify a dependency in the metadata. In Chef 11.x, chef-client and 
solo use the dependency data to figure out the correct order to load 
attribute (and other) files. If a dependency is missing, the attribute files 
won't get loaded at all and usually you barf on missing attributes.

If you add `depends` statements to my_app_cookbook/metadata.rb, everything 
will work normally.

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Daniel DeLeo