[RESOLVED] Missing Cookbooks: ------------------ No such cookbook: windows

This error leaves me nowhere to go. Chef... do tell how to resolve... I have one cookbook in the run list build-essential and it fails?

I removed chef and all cookbooks that depend on windows

berks contingent windows
There are no cookbooks in this Berksfile contingent upon 'windows'.

Missing Cookbooks:


No such cookbook: windows

Expanded Run List:


  • build-essential

System Info:


chef_version=14.3.37

platform=ubuntu

platform_version=16.04

ruby=ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-linux]

program_name=/usr/bin/chef-solo

executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-solo

Running handlers:

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

Running handlers complete

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 01 seconds

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 412 "Precondition Failed"

[2018-08-18T02:37:57+00:00] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 412 "Precondition Failed"

root@ip-172-31-14-0:/var/qta-chef/chef-repo/berks-cookbooks# nano /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

Use "fg" to return to nano.

[1]+ Stopped nano /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

Resolved