Chef-solo override-runlist

Daniel_Gibbons · June 4, 2013, 4:20pm

Hi,

I’m trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can’t seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan

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Jonathan_Mickle · June 4, 2013, 4:27pm

Hi Dan,

I think you want to use -j specifying a JSON file that would include
attributed to override in the current "runlist" check out this following
link:
http://wiki.opscode.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=13173227

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) <
Daniel.Gibbons@rbi.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can't seem to
make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan

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James_Scott · June 4, 2013, 4:31pm

Link to the chef-solo command line topic on chef-docs: http://docs.opscode.com/ctl_chef_solo.html.

From: Jonathan Mickle
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:27 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Chef-solo override-runlist

Hi Dan,

I think you want to use -j specifying a JSON file that would include attributed to override in the current “runlist” check out this following link: http://wiki.opscode.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=13173227

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) <Daniel.Gibbons@rbi.co.uk mailto:Daniel.Gibbons@rbi.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,

I’m trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can’t seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan

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Daniel_Gibbons · June 4, 2013, 4:40pm

Hi,

That was the way I was doing it first of all but I now need to pass in parameters that can be different for each environment which in this case is an app software location, so I wanted to do something like:

UpdateWebServer.bat
chef-solo -c solo.rb -o “role[webserver]” -j productionSettings.json

UpdateMarkLogic.bat
chef-solo -c solo.rb -o “role[marklogic]” -j productionSettings.json

Thanks

Dan

From: Jonathan Mickle [mailto:jmickle05@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 June 2013 17:28
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Chef-solo override-runlist

Hi Dan,

I think you want to use -j specifying a JSON file that would include attributed to override in the current “runlist” check out this following link: http://wiki.opscode.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=13173227

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) <Daniel.Gibbons@rbi.co.uk mailto:Daniel.Gibbons@rbi.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,

I’m trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can’t seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan

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kallistec · June 4, 2013, 4:45pm

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can't seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan
This looks like a legit bug, but I cannot reproduce it easily.

chef-solo -o "role[foo]"
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.2
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Original Run List: []
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [role[foo]]
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] ERROR: Role foo (included by 'top level') is in the runlist but does not exist. Skipping expand.

================================================================================
Error expanding the run_list:
================================================================================


Missing Role(s) in Run List:
----------------------------
* foo included by 'top level'


Original Run List
-----------------
* role[foo]

What version of Chef do you have? Can you run with -ldebug and provide relevant output?

--
Daniel DeLeo

Daniel_Gibbons · June 4, 2013, 4:58pm

Hi,

This is the full output:

C:\Projects\Dev Ops\Chef>chef-solo -c solo.rb -o “role[base]” -j productionSettings.json -ldebug
Starting Chef Client, version 11.0.0←[0m
[2013-06-04T17:53:04+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.0.0 ***
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to [“role[marklogic]”] from JSON
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is windows version 6.1.7601
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to [roles]
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Checking for administrator privileges…
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: chef-client has administrator privileges on node QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net.
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at C:/Projects/Dev Ops/Chef/cookbooks/chefignore no files will be ignored
Compiling Cookbooks…←[0m
[2013-06-04T17:53:17+01:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound - Cookbook roles not found. If you’re loading ro
les from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in block in initialize' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.16.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:inyield’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.16.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:in default' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.16.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:indefault’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:265:in []' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:265:ineach_cookbook_dep’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:243:in add_cookbook_with_deps' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:87:inblock in cookbook_order’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:85:in each' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:85:incookbook_order’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:97:in compile_libraries' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:70:incompile’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:86:in load' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/client.rb:224:insetup_run_context’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/client.rb:467:in do_run' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/client.rb:200:inrun’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/application.rb:190:in run_chef_client' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:239:inblock in run_application’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:in loop' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:inrun_application’
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/lib/chef/application.rb:73:in run' C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.0.0/bin/chef-solo:25:in<top (required)>'
C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo:23:in load' C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo:23:in’

I notice you’ve got a newer version of chef client, maybe it’s been fixed in a later version? I’ll give it a go….

Thanks

Dan

From: Daniel DeLeo [mailto:ddeleo@kallistec.com] On Behalf Of Daniel DeLeo
Sent: 04 June 2013 17:45
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Chef-solo override-runlist

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:
Hi,

I’m trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can’t seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan
This looks like a legit bug, but I cannot reproduce it easily.

chef-solo -o "role[foo]"
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.2
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Original Run List: []
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [role[foo]]
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] ERROR: Role foo (included by 'top level') is in the runlist but does not exist. Skipping expand.

================================================================================
Error expanding the run_list:
================================================================================


Missing Role(s) in Run List:
----------------------------
* foo included by 'top level'


Original Run List
-----------------
* role[foo]

What version of Chef do you have? Can you run with -ldebug and provide relevant output?

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Daniel_Gibbons · June 6, 2013, 8:05am

Hi,

I get the same result with version 11.4.4:

For some reason the –o parameter doesn’t work correctly.

C:\Projects\Dev Ops\Chef>chef-solo -c solo.rb -o “role[base]” -ldebug
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.4←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:42:04+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.4 ***
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for localhost
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is windows version 6.1.7601
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: []
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to [roles]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Checking for administrator privileges…
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: chef-client has administrator privileges on node QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at C:/Projects/Dev Ops/Chef/cookbooks/chefignore no files wi
ll be ignored
Compiling Cookbooks…←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound - Cookbook roles not found.
If you’re loading roles from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.4/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in `block in i
nitialize’

Is this a bug?

Dan

From: Daniel DeLeo [mailto:ddeleo@kallistec.com] On Behalf Of Daniel DeLeo
Sent: 04 June 2013 17:45
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Chef-solo override-runlist

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:
Hi,

I’m trying to pass an override list into chef-solo but I can’t seem to make it accept a role for example this works:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "webserver"
Results in:

[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:15:48+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[webserver]]

But something like:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]"
results in:

[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [role[marklogic]]
[2013-06-04T17:18:27+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

Any ideas how I can pass in a role to the override list in chef-solo?

Thanks

Dan
This looks like a legit bug, but I cannot reproduce it easily.

chef-solo -o "role[foo]"
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.2
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Original Run List: []
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [role[foo]]
[2013-06-04T09:37:26-07:00] ERROR: Role foo (included by 'top level') is in the runlist but does not exist. Skipping expand.

================================================================================
Error expanding the run_list:
================================================================================


Missing Role(s) in Run List:
----------------------------
* foo included by 'top level'


Original Run List
-----------------
* role[foo]

What version of Chef do you have? Can you run with -ldebug and provide relevant output?

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kallistec · June 6, 2013, 3:28pm

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:

Hi,

I get the same result with version 11.4.4:

For some reason the –o parameter doesn’t work correctly.

C:\Projects\Dev Ops\Chef>chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]" -ldebug
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.4←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:42:04+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.4 ***
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for localhost
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is windows version 6.1.7601
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Original Run List:
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to [roles]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net (http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net)
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Checking for administrator privileges....
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: chef-client has administrator privileges on node QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net (http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net).
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at C:/Projects/Dev Ops/Chef/cookbooks/chefignore no files wi
ll be ignored
Compiling Cookbooks...←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound - Cookbook roles not found.
If you're loading roles from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.4/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in `block in i
nitialize'

Is this a bug?

Dan

I see you're on Windows, so I think it's somehow windows related. But definitely a bug. You should file a bug report on tickets.opscode.com

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kallistec · June 14, 2013, 3:40pm

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:

Hi,

I get the same result with version 11.4.4:

For some reason the –o parameter doesn’t work correctly.

C:\Projects\Dev Ops\Chef>chef-solo -c solo.rb -o "role[base]" -ldebug
Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.4←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:42:04+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.4 ***
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for localhost
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is windows version 6.1.7601
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Original Run List:
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[roles]]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to [roles]
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net (http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net)
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Checking for administrator privileges....
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: chef-client has administrator privileges on node QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net (http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net).
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at C:/Projects/Dev Ops/Chef/cookbooks/chefignore no files wi
ll be ignored
Compiling Cookbooks...←[0m
[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound - Cookbook roles not found.
If you're loading roles from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.4/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in `block in i
nitialize'

Is this a bug?

Dan

I see you're on Windows, so I think it's somehow windows related. But definitely a bug. You should file a bug report on tickets.opscode.com (http://tickets.opscode.com)

My colleagues did some investigation and it appears to somehow be related to mingw: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4277

They found that doubling up on quotes seems to work around the issue: chef-solo -o '"role[foo]"'

And thanks for filing the bug report, by the way.

--
Daniel DeLeo

Daniel_Gibbons · June 17, 2013, 8:25am

Hi,

Thanks for looking into this, I found that the workaround in ticket http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4277#comment-36700 didn’t quite work but simply using single quotes did the trick to make roles work:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -o ‘role[webServer]’

Thanks

Dan

From: Daniel DeLeo [mailto:ddeleo@kallistec.com] On Behalf Of Daniel DeLeo
Sent: 14 June 2013 16:40
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Chef-solo override-runlist

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) wrote:

Hi,

I get the same result with version 11.4.4:

For some reason the –o parameter doesn’t work correctly.

C:\Projects\Dev Ops\Chef>chef-solo -c solo.rb -o “role[base]” -ldebug

Starting Chef Client, version 11.4.4←[0m

[2013-06-06T07:42:04+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.4 ***

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for localhost

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is windows version 6.1.7601

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided.

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: []

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[roles]]

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[roles]]

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to [roles]

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Checking for administrator privileges…

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: chef-client has administrator privileges on node QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net http://QHSW21813.b2b.regn.net.

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at C:/Projects/Dev Ops/Chef/cookbooks/chefignore no files wi

ll be ignored

Compiling Cookbooks…←[0m

[2013-06-06T07:43:06+01:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound - Cookbook roles not found.

If you’re loading roles from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata

C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.4/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in `block in i

nitialize’

Is this a bug?

Dan

I see you’re on Windows, so I think it’s somehow windows related. But definitely a bug. You should file a bug report on tickets.opscode.com http://tickets.opscode.com
My colleagues did some investigation and it appears to somehow be related to mingw: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4277

They found that doubling up on quotes seems to work around the issue: chef-solo -o ‘“role[foo]”’

And thanks for filing the bug report, by the way.

–
Daniel DeLeo

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