[chef] knife diff is failing with a lexical error

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

I just started trying to use knife diff, and it will (very) often fail with an error like the following.

 

ERROR: Yajl::ParseError: lexical error: invalid char in json text.

                                       # this is very hard coded for a

          (right here) ------^

 

It appears that something is trying to parse a ruby file as if were json.

 

It doesn’t happen for every ruby file.  I have started doing some specific test cases, and it seems to mostly occur with .rb files that I have created, but not all the ones that I have created.  I have also seen it happen on a few .erb files as well.

 

Has anyone else seen this, and, more importantly, is there a fix or work around?

 

 

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Stephen Corbesero, PAC

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., Bethlehem, PA, USA