[chef] Re: Bootstrap Windows 2012

[Sean Escriva < >]

Hi!


 
 writes:

> When bootstrapping windows server 2012, one of the cookbooks which gets 
> pushed
> is the Perftap cookbook which uses w32::service gem to check to PerfTap 
> service
> existing. This is called in the not_if block of powershell_script and is
> failing to query the service.

Is the code for this cookbook anywhere online? That might help.

>
> The error on the run is:
>
> SystemCallError
> ---------------
> The specified resource type cannot be found in the image file. -
> QueryServiceConfig2: The specified resource type cannot be found in the 
> image
> file.
>
> The cookbook is trying to do the following:
>
> not_if {
>   ::Win32::Service.services.detect do |service
>     service.service_name == 'PerfTap'
>   end
> }

Having not seen the rest of the code, I'm going to go out on a limb here
and say that this isn't really necessary anyway.

Because of this whole thing: http://docs.getchef.com/chef_why.html#idempotence

The 'service' resource is your friend and this type of checking and
not_if guard seems totally unneeded. I could could totally be wrong
though, it's your infrastructure.

>
> This has been reported in Puppet but I cannot see anything in Chef for this
> ruby gem. Link to puppet issue is here:
>
> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16080

Seems like ultimately an issue with the gem. Again, see if you can
actually remove the need to even make this call.

>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,

-- 
-sean