Chef Workstation 0.18.3 PowerShell Issues (Windows Server 2019)

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Experiencing issues with powershell and bootstrapping. The shell just hangs at....

Connecting to [IP]

I need to know where chef workstation logs to? How can I tell whats happening so that I can troubleshoot why the shell is hanging at the very beginning of the process?

Thank you,

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Ok according to this website (https://www.chef.sh/docs/chef-workstation/troubleshooting/) the logs are located here: Chef Workstation logs are stored in ~/.chef-workstation/logs.

Unfortunite for me when I goto that location and open the log file it is empty. Can someone please help point me in the right direction for the next steps?

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Have you validated that you can reach the remote host via WinRM outside of the knife bootstrap command?

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Thank you, I have to check the firewall

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Anytime.

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that got me further, but now I have another issue. I get this error so the bootstrap never completes.

[IP] C:\Users\benelocaladmin\Documents>chef-client -c C:\chef/client.rb -j C:\chef/first-boot.json
 
[IP] [2020-06-02T13:44:18+00:00] FATAL: Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument @ dir_s_mkdir - C:ef

ERROR: The following error occurred on [IP]:

ERROR:
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We ran into similar issues ourselves about a week ago with the 18.x version of the Chef-Workstation. (specifically referring to the missing slashes “dir_s_mkdir - C:ef”).

We rolled back to 17.5, and everything seems to work fine. That being said, this issue may have been resolved in the current release which is 18.3.

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that is the version I have 0.18.3. So this is not fixed. I will see what happens if we install 17.5 instead. Thank you

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17.5 worked like a charm! Thank you!