failure to upload cookbook doesn't bubble up to the CLI tool uploading the cookbook

Matthew Kent added a comment - 09/Apr/10 9:51 PM Seeing this here as well, here's some background mkent@el-test:~/git/chef-repo (master)$ knife cookbook upload teamspeak INFO: ** teamspeak ** INFO: Copying from /home/mkent/git/chef-repo/cookbooks/teamspeak to /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0 INFO: Nothing to copy from /home/mkent/git/chef-repo/site-cookbooks/teamspeak INFO: Testing /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/metadata.rb for syntax errors... INFO: Testing /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/recipes/default.rb for syntax errors... INFO: Testing template /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/templates/default/teamspeak.conf.erb for syntax errors... INFO: Testing template /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/templates/default/server.ini.erb for syntax errors... INFO: Testing template /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/templates/default/port_teamspeak.erb for syntax errors... INFO: Testing template /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/templates/default/demo.php.erb for syntax errors... INFO: Generating metadata for teamspeak INFO: Generating from /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/metadata.rb INFO: Generated /tmp/chef-teamspeak-build.24527.0/teamspeak/metadata.json INFO: Creating tarball at /tmp/chef-teamspeak.24527.0.tar.gz INFO: Upload complete! mkent@el-test:~/git/chef-repo (master)$ echo $? 0 Hooray! Oh wait merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Started request handling: Fri Apr 09 14:28:00 -0700 2010 merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Params: {"name"=>"teamspeak", "format"=>nil, "action"=>"create", "controller"=>"chef_server_api/cookbooks", "file"=>{"content_type"=>"application/octet-stream", "size"=>3748, "tempfile"=>#<File:/tmp/Merb.24523.0>, "filename"=>"chef-teamspeak.24527.0.tar.gz"}} merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Permission denied - /xvar - (Errno::EACCES) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `fu_mkdir' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:217:in `mkdir_p' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `reverse_each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `mkdir_p' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `mkdir_p' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-api-0.8.10/app/helpers/tarball_helper.rb:70:in `expand_tarball_and_put_in_repository' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-api-0.8.10/app/controllers/cookbooks.rb:168:in `create' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.0.15/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:315:in `send'