[chef] Re: Re: Git failures, Windows, Chef

[Amit Dattani < >]

The only git errors we get on Windows is when it installs and updates the environment variable. This is then called within the same chef run by another cookbook and fails as in Windows the when the shell is loaded it runs environment variables and only reads the update when it is relaunched. Hence on the next chef run it works.

Not seen the error you have and unsure if what we see if at all helpful to you.......

On 14 August 2014 14:23, Jeff Blaine < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm very surprised nobody's having these issues. Maybe everyone
doing git+chef work is on Windows 7 still?

On 8/11/2014 10:26 AM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> I can't be the only person experiencing frustration with Git on Windows,
> which is essential do using any Windows box as a Chef Workstation of
> course. I've been unable to find any reason and solution to the
> following. If anyone has ideas, please share. I find it hard to believe
> people use Windows as a Chef workstation on a daily basis with the
> configuration below. What's the secret?
>
> * Windows 8 (I had these same issues ~7 months ago) and Windows
>   8.1 (now)
> * Git 1.9.4 installer from git-scm.org
> * Git-Bash as the command shell
>
> I intermittently get:
>
>   ERROR: Errno::EIO: Input/output error - CreateProcessW
>
> ... and then the command in question will work fine.
>
> ...or I get some unknown failure as part of 'knife cookbook site
> install...' commands that also then leave me sitting on some
> chef-vendor-XXXXX branch:
>
>   ~/chef-repo (master)
>   $ knife cookbook site install vagrant --verbose
>   Installing vagrant to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-vagrant) exists, switching to it.
>   Downloading vagrant from the cookbooks site at version 0.2.0 to
> c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
>   Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
>   Removing pre-existing version.
>   Uncompressing vagrant version 0.2.0.
>   removing downloaded tarball
>   No changes made to vagrant
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Installing dmg to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-dmg) exists, switching to it.
>   Downloading dmg from the cookbooks site at version 2.2.0 to
> c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
>   Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
>   Removing pre-existing version.
>   Uncompressing dmg version 2.2.0.
>   removing downloaded tarball
>   3 files updated, committing changes
>   ERROR: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit
> with [0], but received '1'
>   ---- Begin output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
>   STDOUT: On branch chef-vendor-dmg
>   nothing to commit, working directory clean
>   STDERR:
>   ---- End output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
>   Ran git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg returned 1
>
>   ~/chef-repo (chef-vendor-dmg)
>   $
>
>
>
>

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