During the Instance creationg on Amazon EC2 chef returned an unknown error during executing the knife receipy.

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Blocker Blocker
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 0.10.8
  • Fix Version/s: 0.10.10
  • Component/s: Chef Client
  • Environment:

    Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit

Description

Waiting for sshd..done
Bootstrapping Chef on ec2-xxx-xx-xx-xxx.ap-xxxx.compute.amazonaws.com
STDERR: ERROR: TypeError: can't convert false into String
---- End output of knife ec2 server create -r "role[ubuntu]" -c ~/.chef/xyz.rb -I ami-009a2xxx -f m1.small -S knife -i ~/.ssh/abc.pem --ssh-user ubuntu --region ap-northeast-1 -Z ap-northeast-1a ----
Ran knife ec2 server create -r "role[ubuntu]" -c ~/.chef/xyz.rb -I ami-009axxx -f m1.small -S knife -i ~/.ssh/abc.pem --ssh-user ubuntu --region ap-northeast-1 -Z ap-northeast-1a returned 100

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Ali Tahir added a comment -

Anyone able to resolve this issue ???? .thanks

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Ali Tahir added a comment - Anyone able to resolve this issue ???? .thanks
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Steven Danna added a comment -

Hi Ali,

Could you include the output of the same command but with -VV added so that we can see the full stack trace?

Cheers,

Steven

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Steven Danna added a comment - Hi Ali, Could you include the output of the same command but with -VV added so that we can see the full stack trace? Cheers, Steven
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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment -

Thank you for using Chef and filing a bug. Most of the community follows the mailing list rather than the ticket database. You're likely going to get more answers if you ask your question there. Please link to this ticket if you do.

http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef

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Bryan McLellan [Opscode] added a comment - Thank you for using Chef and filing a bug. Most of the community follows the mailing list rather than the ticket database. You're likely going to get more answers if you ask your question there. Please link to this ticket if you do. http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef
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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment -

I've also got the same issue.

What's interesting, it is only present when knife is being called from within RightScale (under bash) and not from the command line. I suppose that could be related to either some env variable or Ruby version. Going to investigate further...

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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment - I've also got the same issue. What's interesting, it is only present when knife is being called from within RightScale (under bash) and not from the command line. I suppose that could be related to either some env variable or Ruby version. Going to investigate further...
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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment -

Okay, so here's the problem (chef 0.10.8 gem):

line 116 of lib/chef/knife/bootstrap.rb has:
bootstrap_files << File.join(@@chef_config_dir, "bootstrap", "#{config[:distro]}.erb")

and @@chef_config_dir may as well be equal to false because of line 241 of lib/chef/knife.rb.

The fix is to append "if @@chef_config_dir" to line 116 of lib/chef/knife/bootstrap.rb.

On a side note, most of the code that is related to bootstrap template search can be greatly improved in terms of readability and simplicity.

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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment - Okay, so here's the problem (chef 0.10.8 gem): line 116 of lib/chef/knife/bootstrap.rb has: bootstrap_files << File.join(@@chef_config_dir, "bootstrap", "#{config[:distro]}.erb") and @@chef_config_dir may as well be equal to false because of line 241 of lib/chef/knife.rb. The fix is to append "if @@chef_config_dir" to line 116 of lib/chef/knife/bootstrap.rb. On a side note, most of the code that is related to bootstrap template search can be greatly improved in terms of readability and simplicity.
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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment -

The latest master branch has this code:

bootstrap_files << File.join(Knife.chef_config_dir, "bootstrap", "#{config[:distro]}.erb") if Knife.chef_config_dir

So, I guess this issue may be fixed in the upcoming release.

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Arthur Pirogovski added a comment - The latest master branch has this code: bootstrap_files << File.join(Knife.chef_config_dir, "bootstrap", "#{config[:distro]}.erb") if Knife.chef_config_dir So, I guess this issue may be fixed in the upcoming release.
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Steven Danna added a comment -

Arthur,

Thanks for looking into this further. Looks like I introduced this bug when fixing another. Luckily, as you found, Dan fixed it in this commit:

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/6d4d8d8040cf99046e36af671c4011e2310611bf

I've set the fix version to 10.10 since this is already committed to master and should be in the next release.

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Steven Danna added a comment - Arthur, Thanks for looking into this further. Looks like I introduced this bug when fixing another. Luckily, as you found, Dan fixed it in this commit: https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/6d4d8d8040cf99046e36af671c4011e2310611bf I've set the fix version to 10.10 since this is already committed to master and should be in the next release.

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    Ali Tahir
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