Chef-solo error : Could not parse the provided JSON file

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1

Hi , I tried to follow
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
installation guide and when ran chef-solo command got this error message :

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r

http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

[2012-07-26T15:07:21+03:00] FATAL: Could not parse the provided JSON file
(/root/chef.json)!: 743: unexpected token at ‘{
“chef_server”: {
“server_url”: "http://localhost:4000"
“init_style”: “init”
},
“run_list”: [ “recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]” ]
}
’

OS level is centOS 6.2 64 bits .
Chef version is 10.12.0 .

Regards ,

/Vlad .

2

You are missing a comma after the server URL value.

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On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:54 AM, vlad.berezovski@gmail.com wrote:

Hi , I tried to follow
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
installation guide and when ran chef-solo command got this error message :

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r

http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

[2012-07-26T15:07:21+03:00] FATAL: Could not parse the provided JSON file
(/root/chef.json)!: 743: unexpected token at '{
"chef_server": {
"server_url": "http://localhost:4000"
"init_style": "init"
},
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]
}
'

OS level is centOS 6.2 64 bits .
Chef version is 10.12.0 .

Regards ,

/Vlad .

3

Hi Vlad,

There doesn't appear to be a comma after the localhost attribute.

--
Hector
On Jul 26, 2012 8:09 AM, vlad.berezovski@gmail.com wrote:

Hi , I tried to follow
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
installation guide and when ran chef-solo command got this error
message :

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r

http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

[2012-07-26T15:07:21+03:00] FATAL: Could not parse the provided JSON file
(/root/chef.json)!: 743: unexpected token at '{
"chef_server": {
"server_url": "http://localhost:4000"
"init_style": "init"
},
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]
}
'

OS level is centOS 6.2 64 bits .
Chef version is 10.12.0 .

Regards ,

/Vlad .

4

I use this site all the time when working with chef-solo:

Sascha Bates
| sascha.bates@gmail.com | 612 850 0444 | sascha.bates@skype | sascha_bates@yahoo |

On 7/26/12 6:54 AM, vlad.berezovski@gmail.com wrote:

Hi , I tried to follow
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
installation guide and when ran chef-solo command got this error message :

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r

http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

[2012-07-26T15:07:21+03:00] FATAL: Could not parse the provided JSON file
(/root/chef.json)!: 743: unexpected token at '{
"chef_server": {
"server_url": "http://localhost:4000"
"init_style": "init"
},
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]
}
'

OS level is centOS 6.2 64 bits .
Chef version is 10.12.0 .

Regards ,

/Vlad .

5

Thanks , this solved the problem .

Will continue with Chef setup .

/Vlad

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Sascha Bates sascha.bates@gmail.comwrote:

I use this site all the time when working with chef-solo:

http://jsonlint.com/

Sascha Bates
| sascha.bates@gmail.com | 612 850 0444 | sascha.bates@skype |
sascha_bates@yahoo |

On 7/26/12 6:54 AM, vlad.berezovski@gmail.com wrote:

Hi , I tried to follow
http://wiki.opscode.com/**display/chef/Installing+Chef+**
Server+using+Chef+Solohttp://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
installation guide and when ran chef-solo command got this error
message :

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r

http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-**solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gzhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

[2012-07-26T15:07:21+03:00] FATAL: Could not parse the provided JSON file
(/root/chef.json)!: 743: unexpected token at '{
"chef_server": {
"server_url": "http://localhost:4000"
"init_style": "init"
},
"run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-**install]" ]
}
'

OS level is centOS 6.2 64 bits .
Chef version is 10.12.0 .

Regards ,

/Vlad .