[chef] Re: Having a problem with chef-solo and remote cookbooks on Windows and CHEF-5332

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

This was resolved on IRC. The issue is still open with a pull request under 
review since August.

--Noah

On Dec 23, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Daniel Spisak 
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 wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> I am somewhat new to Chef and have been trying to learn it to deal with an 
> automation problem I'm trying to tackle on Windows. I had been working with 
> a set of recipes in my cookbook on a VM where I was doing testing of my 
> code before taking it to the next step and trying to do a full test by 
> deploying the node.json and chef-solo.tar.gz cookbook archive on a web 
> server for the chef-solo client to get from and then execute on a Windows 
> 2012 system. Currently this is what happens when I try to execute my 
> chef-solo action:
> 
> 
> PS C:\chef> chef-solo -c solo.rb -j http://xxxxx/node.json -r ;
> http://xxxxx/chef-solo.tar.gz
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:195:in
>  `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
>         from 
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:195:in
>  `reconfigure'
>         from 
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/application.rb:53:in
>  `run'
>         from 
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/bin/chef-solo:25:in
>  `<top (required)>'
>         from C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo:23:in `load'
>         from C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo:23:in `<main>'
> 
> and my solo.rb has the following contents
> 
> log_level     :info
> log_location  STDOUT
> file_cache_path 'c:\\chef\cache'
> cookbook_path 'c:\\chef\cookbooks'
> 
> This is on the 11.16-4 client, which according to this bug says this should 
> work
> 
> https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5332
> 
> Sooooo...what gives? Am I screwed?

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