[chef] Re: Getting this error when using knife command

[Matthew Moretti < >]

It looks like the author of your knife.rb file expected the environment variable, “CHEF_CONFIG“, to exist and it doesn’t. That is, ENV["CHEF_CONFIG"] is returning nil which in turn can’t be used as a file name to open.

I’m guessing here, but it looks like the intention was for that environment variable to contain the path to a YAML file that has some configuration in it? This isn’t a default behavior, as far as I know. Perhaps your organization has some documentation to refer to?

Sadly, my Windows knowledge is pretty poor; I might be missing something.

Matt Moretti

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On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, dharmesh patel < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I have permission to update the cookbook but this error is coming even listing the nodes.

C:\Users\dharmesh.patel\chef-repo\chef-repo\trunk>knife node list

ERROR: You have an error in your config file C:/Users/dharmesh.patel/chef-repo/c

hef-repo/trunk/.chef/knife.rb

TypeError: can't convert nil into String

  C:/Users/dharmesh.patel/chef-repo/chef-repo/trunk/.chef/knife.rb:3:in `initial

ize'

  C:/Users/dharmesh.patel/chef-repo/chef-repo/trunk/.chef/knife.rb:3:in `open'

  C:/Users/dharmesh.patel/chef-repo/chef-repo/trunk/.chef/knife.rb:3:in `from_st

ring'

     # C:/Users/dharmesh.patel/chef-repo/chef-repo/trunk/.chef/knife.rb

  2:

  3: config = YAML::load(File.open(ENV["CHEF_CONFIG"]))

  4: provider = ENV['CHEF_PROVIDER'] || "internal"

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Thanks & Regards

Dharmesh Patel