[chef] Re: Chef client suddenly can't find recipes/cookbooks (cheffish)?

[o haya < >]

Hi,

I figured this out, I was using the wrong format for the parameter for the 
"chef-client -o" parameter.  It should've been 'recipe[cookbook::recipe]' 
format.

Sorry,
Jim


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On Tue, 7/7/15, o haya 
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 Subject: Chef client suddenly can't find recipes/cookbooks (cheffish)?
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 Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 6:14 PM
 
 Hi,
 
 I had setup a CENTOS 6.5 machine last week (or maybe a
 couple of weeks ago) and was using it to test the
 chef-splunk cookbook.
 
 Things were good, and I even have screenshots.
 
 Today, I wanted to pickup where I left off, but nothing is
 working anymore on the machine (with Chef).
 
 When I run chef-client to run a recipe that I KNOW is on the
 server, I get error saying it can't resolve.
 
 

 
 chef]#
 chef-client -o user
 Starting Chef Client, version 12.4.0
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] WARN: Run List override has been
 provided.
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] WARN: Original Run List: []
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] WARN: Overridden Run List:
 [recipe[user]]
 resolving cookbooks for run list: ["user"]
 
 
================================================================================
 Error Resolving Cookbooks for Run List:
 
================================================================================
 
 Missing Cookbooks:
 ------------------
 The following cookbooks are required by the client but don't
 exist on the server           
           :
 * user
 
 
 Expanded Run List:
 ------------------
 * user
 
 
 Running handlers:
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] ERROR: Running exception
 handlers
 Running handlers complete
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers
 complete
 Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 1.313674771
 seconds
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] ERROR: undefined method
 `cheffish' for nil:NilClass
 [2015-07-07T18:00:49-04:00] FATAL:
 Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef ru   
                
   n process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
 

 
 chef]#
 
 
 I googled and found this one reference:
 
 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31149600/undefined-method-cheffish-for-nilnilclass-when-provisioning-chef-with-vagra
 
 which I don't quite understand?
 
 Is that saying that somehow the chef client on that machine
 got changed to 12.4.0 and now it is broken?
 
 Does chef-client automatically update itself (e.g., as I
 said it was working last week or so, but now is not)?
 
 Also, being a newbie, I don't understand the solutions that
 are mentioned like "I switched to 12.3.0 and now it works"
 and "I added the line chef.version = "12.3.0" to the
 provision block ".  Can someone kindly explain how to
 do that?
 
 I even stood up a new CENTOS box and it ended up with 12.4.0
 client I guess, because it has the exact same problem.
 
 Sorry for the panic :(!!
 
 Thanks,
 Jim