[chef] Re: Trouble with java

[Alan Ivey < >]

Sigh, it was a simple mistake; missed a 'depends' in a role cookbook of another role cookbook.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Alan Ivey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I loaded up the Jenkins cookbook, which requires Java. I'm getting this error the first time I run the java cookbook:

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Recipe Compile Error in /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/echoditto_site_test.com/recipes/default.rb

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NoMethodError

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undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

Cookbook Trace:

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  /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/java/recipes/default.rb:21:in `from_file'

  /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/jenkins/recipes/server.rb:28:in `from_file'

  /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/echoditto_role_jenkins/recipes/default.rb:14:in `from_file'

  /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/echoditto_site_test.com/recipes/default.rb:40:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

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/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/java/recipes/default.rb:

 14:  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

 15:  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

 16:  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

 17:  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

 18:  # limitations under the License.

 19:  #

 20:

 21>> include_recipe "java::#{node['java']['install_flavor']}"

 22:

 23:  # Purge the deprecated Sun Java packages if remove_deprecated_packages is true

 24:  %w[sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre].each do |pkg|

 25:    package pkg do

 26:      action :purge

 27:      only_if { node['java']['remove_deprecated_packages'] }

 28:    end

 29:  end

 30:

[2013-09-10T20:58:46+00:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: NoMethodError - undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

It's behaving as if none of the attribute files are being loaded. If I add node['java']['install_flavor'] = openjdk (I'm on CentOS), I get another error about an attribute being null. Repeat, repeat...

I'm using chef-solo and I have 'depends java' in my cookbook. Any ideas? Thanks!