[chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The parameter is incorrect.

[Adam Edwards < >]

Thanks for trying it on the box -- that was my next question. I have to go
offsite / offline for a few hours, so it may be a while before my next
reponse. It's possible there's something funny about msxml on your system,
but that seems unlikely with win2k8r2. Is there anything interesting about
the account you're running with? It should be fine as long as it's a
member of the administrators group, but if there are any other
restrictions on the account it would be good to know.

Last question: Is this a fairly stock image of Windows? Or have you made a
few tweaks (other than enabling winrm) on the box? Are there any
interesting applications / services installed like Visual Studio or SQL
Server?

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Blaine 
[mailto:
 
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:12 AM
To: 

 
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The
parameter is incorrect.

On 9/12/2013 10:03 AM, Adam Edwards wrote:
> Very odd -- is there any other output after this Jeff? Also, what
> version

Included below.

Thanks for the follow-ups, Adam.

> of Ruby are you using on your knife workstation? I have seen some
> strange behaviors with Ruby 2.0, but haven't been able to get a solid
repro.

knife is from /opt/chef/bin on an 11.4 client which makes use of
/opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby (1.9.3p286)

FWIW, I get the same msxml6.dll error if I login to the Windows box and
run C:\Chef\wget.vbs from a cmd.exe

The rest of the bootstrap output per 1st question above:

...

jblaine-win.our.org C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The parameter is
incorrect.
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>msiexec /qb /i
"C:\Users\JBLAIN~1.OUR\AppData\Local\Temp\chef-client-latest.msi"
jblaine-win.our.org This installation package could not be opened.
Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer
package.
jblaine-win.our.org 'chef-client' is not recognized as an internal or
external command, jblaine-win.our.org operable program or batch file.
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>( jblaine-win.our.org
echo.-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

...snip...

jblaine-win.our.org  echo.-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
jblaine-win.our.org ) 1>C:\chef\validation.pem jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>(
jblaine-win.our.org echo.log_level        :info
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.log_location     STDOUT
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.chef_server_url
"https://rcf-cm-master.our.org/";
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.validation_client_name "chef-validator"
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.client_key        "c:/chef/client.pem"
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.validation_key    "c:/chef/validation.pem"
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.file_cache_path   "c:/chef/cache"
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.file_backup_path  "c:/chef/backup"
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.cache_options     ({:path =>
"c:/chef/cache/checksums", :skip_expires => true}) jblaine-win.our.org
echo.
jblaine-win.our.org  echo.# Using default node name (fqdn)
jblaine-win.our.org ) 1>C:\chef\client.rb jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org
C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>(echo.{"run_list":["role[rcf-windows-base]"]})
1>C:\chef\first-boot.json
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>SET
"PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\S
ystem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Tools\WPT\;C:\Tools\;C:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\ruby\bin;C:\opscode\chef\bin;C:\opscode\chef\embe
dded\bin"
jblaine-win.our.org
jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb
-j c:/chef/first-boot.json -E _default $

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Blaine 
> [mailto:
 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:15 PM
> To: 
> 
 
> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The
> parameter is incorrect.
>
> On 9/11/2013 3:05 PM, Adam Edwards wrote:
>> Haven't seen that. What version of knife-windows are you using, and
>> what
>
> 0.5.12 (latest gem published)
>
>> version of Windows are you trying to bootstrap? I would expect that
>> even
>
> Windows 2008 R2
>
>> if wget.vbs fails, a retry should occur with Powershell that would
>> not be affected by strangeness around mxml6 and friends.
>>
>> Thanks Jeff.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Blaine 
>> [mailto:
 
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:24 AM
>> To: 
>> 
 
>> Subject: [chef] C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The parameter is
>> incorrect.
>>
>> Has anyone hit this problem? knife bootstrap windows via winrm fails.
>>
>> $ knife --version
>> 11.4.0
>> $ knife bootstrap windows winrm jblaine-win.our.org -r
>> 'role[rcf-windows-base]' -x 'OUR\jblaine'
>> ...
>> jblaine-win.our.org C:\Users\jblaine.OUR>cscript /nologo
>> C:\chef\wget.vbs
>
/url:"https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?p=windows&pv=2008r2&m=x86_64";
>> /path:"C:\Users\JBLAIN~1.MIT\AppData\Local\Temp\chef-client-latest.msi"
>> jblaine-win.our.org C:\chef\wget.vbs(28, 1) msxml6.dll: The parameter
>> is incorrect.
>> ...
>>
>>
>