[chef] Re: Error running Java Recipe: undefined method `split' for nil:NilClass

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Christopher Hahn wrote:

> Hello all,
>  
> I am running a java recipe that is checked out from a Repository that
> I do not have write access to, and so I am using my cookbooks attributes  
> file to change how the software is installed.
>  
> We are using Chef 10.14.4 with Vagrant 1.4.3 (versions fixed and out of my 
> control)
>  
> I was asked to change the recipe to install Java version 8.
snip...
  
> NoMethodError
> -------------
> undefined method `split' for nil:NilClass
>  
> Cookbook Trace:
> ---------------
> /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-2/cookbooks/java/providers/ark.rb:25:in 
> `parse_app_dir_name'

You’ll want to see what this code is doing to help figure out what’s going on.

>  
> I would be arguing that we need to try upgrading, but this deployment works 
> on some system  
> but not on others....I am thinking that I have some gem version mismatch 
> but am not clear on
> how I might determine this....  
>  
> All apologies if this is documented....I looked.
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Christopher  
--  
Daniel DeLeo