[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: open source chef client error

[Lamont Granquist < >]

start with 'dpkg -l | grep ruby' and 'dpkg -P' all the ruby stuff you find...

then, only if you need it for something, start with 'apt-get install ruby1.9.3'

i would skip rbenv or rvm entirely unless you really need them, setting them up system-wide as root is generally more of a pain that its worth.

On 12/3/13 6:07 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

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you also should not be using ruby 1.8 and should remove those packages from your system and replace them with the ruby 1.9 ones.

Sounds like good advice. Could you perhaps recommend a safe way to uninstall ruby 1.8 without muffing up ruby 1.9?

Thanks

Tim 

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Booker Bense < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'd strongly encourage you to try an omnibus install if at all possible. It's been a while since I tried it, but even Chef 10 did not work smoothly with ruby 1.8.

http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

Your life will be much simpler if chef has it's own version of ruby and dependencies installed. 

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Dunphy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

how you have installed chef? may be GEM_PATH/GEM_HOME is messed up. do you have multiple ruby installation ?

Hi and thanks for your response. I did a gem install. And I actually didn't have those variable set. So I tried setting them, and I did make a little progress. 

:~] #echo $GEM_HOME

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8

:~] #echo $GEM_PATH

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems

But now I am getting a different error, so I may not have the correct values there:

:~] #knife configure --initial

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs': Could not find chef (>= 0) amongst [] (Gem::LoadError)

        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in `to_spec'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1231:in `gem'

        from /usr/local/bin/knife:1

Do you think you could point me in the right direction in setting these variables? I think that might solve the problem.

Tim

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

how you have installed chef? may be GEM_PATH/GEM_HOME is messed up. do you have multiple ruby installation ?

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Tim Dunphy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hey all,

I'm attempting to configure chef client on my chef server and running into an error.

:~] #knife configure --initial

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs': Could not find chef (>= 0) amongst [bunny-0.8.0, erubis-2.7.0, highline-1.6.15, ipaddress-0.8.0, json-1.7.5, mime-types-1.19, mixlib-authentication-1.3.0, mixlib-cli-1.3.0, mixlib-config-1.1.2, mixlib-log-1.4.1, mixlib-shellout-1.1.0, moneta-0.7.1, net-ssh-2.6.5, net-ssh-gateway-1.1.0, net-ssh-multi-1.1, ohai-6.14.0, polyglot-0.3.3, rest-client-1.6.7, systemu-2.5.2, treetop-1.4.12, uuidtools-2.1.3, yajl-ruby-1.1.0] (Gem::LoadError)

        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in `to_spec'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1231:in `gem'

        from /usr/local/bin/knife:18

I am running chef 11.8.0 under ubuntu 13.10.

Can anyone provide some insight on how to get around this error?

Thanks!

Tim

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