[chef] Chef 11.6 Windows, error with templates?

[Brian Anderson < >]

I tried booting up a new Windows Server instance today. Since the knife-windows plugin always installs the latest version of Chef, I got 11.6.

My chef run blew up pretty quickly at the first cookbook_file I hit:

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ================================================================================

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com Error executing action `create` on resource 'cookbook_file[/Progra~1/NSClient++/nsclient.ini]'

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ================================================================================

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com Chef::Exceptions::Win32APIError

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com -------------------------------

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com The system cannot find the path specified.

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ---- Begin Win32 API output ----

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com System Error Code: 3

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com System Error Message: The system cannot find the path specified.

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ---- End Win32 API output ----

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com Resource Declaration:

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ---------------------

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com # In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/nagios/recipes/client-win.rb

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com  16: cookbook_file "/Progra~1/NSClient++/nsclient.ini" do

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com  17:         source "nsclient.ini"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com  18: end

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com  19: 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com Compiled Resource:

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ------------------

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com # Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/nagios/recipes/client-win.rb:16:in `from_file'

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com cookbook_file("/Progra~1/NSClient++/nsclient.ini") do

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   provider Chef::Provider::CookbookFile

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   action "create"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   retries 0

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   retry_delay 2

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   path "/Progra~1/NSClient++/nsclient.ini"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   backup 5

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   atomic_update true

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   source "nsclient.ini"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   cookbook_name "nagios"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com   recipe_name "client-win"

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com end

ec2-184-72-136-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com 

I disabled that recipe and got a similar error the first time it hit a template.

I read the release notes about the file changes, but I didn't think I was doing anything that should cause trouble. Is there anything in that compiled resource that looks wrong?

I rolled back to 11.4.4 on the instance and everything ran as expected.

Brian

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Brian Anderson | Operations Engineer
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www.affectiva.com