Chef Client 12.14.60 Break stuff?

Chef Infra (archive)
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Maybe I missed something but chef client completely broke my chef-client runs this morning. User, yum and a few others.

I am using the latest cookbooks in the community. Anyone else seeing this?

Jenn

2

We are aware of the yum issues(see https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5320). Could you submit any other issues you are seeing. We definitely want to make sure we address any breaking scenarios. Thanks!

3

Perfect! thank you! I will do that.

4

oh perhaps https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/5318 captures the user problem you are seeing?

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https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/5318

yup was just about to post that! Thanks!

6

Is there a way in the chef server that I can set a version level? We use knife/packer and since I can’t set it there (At least I haven’t found a way yet), I am kinda hosed on building out new systems today.

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With knife, you can use --bootstrap-version to specify which version of chef to use

On your packer builds, you can override the ‘install_command’ to install from a specific channel or version

https://docs.chef.io/install_omnibus.html

    {
      "type": "chef-solo",
      "guest_os_type": "windows",
      "install_command": "powershell.exe -Command \". { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; install -channel current\"",
      "cookbook_paths": ["cookbooks"],
      "run_list": []
    },

Here is another example from cheeseplus

https://github.com/chef-cft/wombat/blob/master/packer/workstation.json#L78

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Perfect Thanks on the bootstrap-version completely forgot about that!

I am using chef-client for packer. checking if I can set it with that?

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I got it! thanks!