Chef bootstrap command returned 128

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi,
during the bootstrap of a Windows 2008 host I’ve just received the “Bootstrap command returned 128” error. How can I solve it? Where is the log with the detail of the bootstrap operation?

Regards,

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WinRM is tricky, MWrock has a good tutorial on things to check when troubleshooting winrm problems with chef

Things to check

  1. Run knife wsman tests. e.g knife wsman test x.x.x.x -m
  2. Is there more than 5 winrm connections already? windows 2008 only allows 5
  3. Have you done a winrm config? winrm server isn’t running by default on some versions of windows.

Check the winrm documentation here to make sure the maxmemorypershellmb has been increased.

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Yeah its hard to diagnose that. It may be unrelated to winrm. It just means that something in the bootstrap exited with exit code 128. A gist of debug output might help.