Platform_version issue when chef is in path vs not in path on Windows

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Hi,

We are running Windows 2003 32bit / 64bit and Win 2008 64bit. We are
currently running Chef 0.10.6 with ohai 0.6.10. When chef gets installed ,
the following is added to path :
C:\opscode\chef\bin;C:\opscode\chef\embedded\bin; . However, when you run
chef-client on the command line it isn’t reflected , instead you need to
run using the complete path : C:\opscode\chef\bin\chef-install . If you go
to the Path variable and open it and close it , it reflects on the command
line.

Now on the 32 bit Win2003 machine, when you run chef-client using the
entire path, everything runs fine but fails on 64bit Win 2003 server with
the message:
ArgumentError: Cannot find a version for node[<>]
c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/platform.rb:312:in
find_platform_and_version' c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/node.rb:384:inconsume_external_attrs’
c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/client.rb:247:in
build_node' c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/client.rb:151:inrun’
c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/application/client.rb:239:in
block in run_application' c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:inloop’
c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in
run_application' c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/lib/chef/application.rb:67:inrun’
c:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/chef-client:26:in
<top (required)>' c:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client:19:inload’
c:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client:19:in `’

Further, on the IRC I was asked to update ohai and that it should fix it
but it didn’t. Then we found ohai’s behavior to be as follows:

Win2003 64 bit .

  1. If chef and ohai are in path , when I run ohai , I get the right values:
    “platform”: “windows”,
    “platform_version”: “5.2.3790”,
    “platform_family”: “windows”,

  2. If chef and ohai are not in path, I get the following and chef-client
    run fails at platform_version
    "platform": “windows”,
    “platform_version”: null,
    “platform_family”: “windows”,

On Win2003 32 bit, the behavior is different and hence, the chefclient runs
never fail
Win 2003 32 bit

  1. Without_chef_in_path
    "platform_version": “1.0.12(0.46/3/2)”, - Wrong value but some value
  2. with _chef_in_path
    "platform_version": “5.2.3790”,

On the 64 bit, I updated the ohai to 6.14.0 without updating chef client
but the behavior seems to be determined by the path of chef and ohai .

Have you faced this issue ? What do you recommend ?

Ranjan