# Can't provision new 0.9.16 server

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/cant-provision-new-0-9-16-server/1906>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [June 3, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cant-provision-new-0-9-16-server/1906 "2011-06-03T14:18:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Rechler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mark\_Rechler](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Mark_Rechler)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cant-provision-new-0-9-16-server/1906/1 "2011-06-03T14:18:32Z")

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When attempting to provision a new chef-server via:  
chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j chef.json -r  
[http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-0.9.16.tar.gz](http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-0.9.16.tar.gz)

I get an error related to runit\_service:  
/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/runit/definitions/runit\_service.rb:23:in `block in from_file': undefined method`[]’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

I have init\_style set to init in the json as this is a centos box. Does anyone  
have any ideas? The behavior is the same with bootstrap-latest.

Thanks,  
Mark

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Rechler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mark\_Rechler](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Mark_Rechler)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cant-provision-new-0-9-16-server/1906/2 "2011-06-03T16:42:02Z")

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Never mind, was mixing instructions for 0.10 and 0.9.6, sorry for the false  
alarm.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, [mrechler@brightcove.com](mailto:mrechler@brightcove.com) wrote:

> When attempting to provision a new chef-server via:  
> chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j chef.json -r  
> [http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-0.9.16.tar.gz](http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-0.9.16.tar.gz)
> 
> I get an error related to runit\_service:  
> /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/runit/definitions/runit\_service.rb:23:in `block in from_file': undefined method `' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
> 
> I have init\_style set to init in the json as this is a centos box. Does  
> anyone  
> have any ideas? The behavior is the same with bootstrap-latest.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Mark