# Chef Manage Can't create new role

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-manage-cant-create-new-role/9175>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [August 15, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-manage-cant-create-new-role/9175 "2016-08-15T15:41:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![drewturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@drewturner](https://discourse.chef.io/u/drewturner)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-manage-cant-create-new-role/9175/1 "2016-08-15T15:41:19Z")

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Fresh install of Chef server and chef manage

Under Policy -\> Roles, the Create button is black and I can click it, but nothing happens. Am I missing something to activate it? I have tried multiple browsers.

chef-server 12.8.0

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**Author:** ![ceseuron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@ceseuron](https://discourse.chef.io/u/ceseuron)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-manage-cant-create-new-role/9175/2 "2016-09-01T19:17:51Z")

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I don’t know if this is still a problem for the original poster, but this also happened to me today. For posterity and for future users who may run into a similar problem, I’m posting my solution here.

I am running Chef Server 12.8.0 on CentOS 7. The problem itself doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Chef Server 12.8.0 core, but rather the Chef Manage interface. The problem I experienced was with Chef Manage 2.4.1.

Steps I took to resolve:

1. Checked what version of Chef Manage is installed: **rpm -qa | grep manage**
2. Compare to latest version found at: [https://downloads.chef.io/chef-manage/](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-manage/)
3. Downloaded latest version of Chef Manage: **wget [https://packages.chef.io/stable/el/7/chef-manage-2.4.3-1](https://packages.chef.io/stable/el/7/chef-manage-2.4.3-1) .el7.x86\_64.rpm**
4. Installed with RPM: **rpm -Uvh chef-manage-2.4.3-1.el7.x86\_64.rpm**
5. Run Chef Manage reconfiguration: **chef-manage-ctl reconfigure**
6. Restart Chef Manage: **chef-manage-ctl restart**

Once I completed the above steps, I reloaded the Chef Manage UI, logged back in, and I can now create roles.