Chef Troubleshooting

Error codes

• Application error codes
• Chef exit codes

Test Kitchen

• For Test Kitchen related issues see troubleshooting at  Chef Test Kitchen

Launching a new instance

• HTTP Request Returned 409 Conflict: Client already exists
• The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist

Data Volumes

• RuntimeError: Volume vol-… attached at xvdf but does not conform to this resource’s specifications

Chef resources

• windows_task, ArgumentError: invalid date

Custom resources

• NoMethodError: undefined method `exists?’ for Chef::Resource::File:Class
• Chef custom resource is using the same property name as the called resource

Attributes

• Undefined method or attribute error in a Chef recipe
• could not find filename for attribute .DS_Store in cookbook
• Chef FATAL: IndexError: string not matched

Terminal

• `pwd’: No such file or directory – getcwd (Errno::ENOENT)

Bootstrapping

• Chef NoMethodError, undefined method
• Cannot connect to an AWS EC2 Windows instance with WINRM

Attaching servers to a domain

• Computer ‘…’ failed to join domain. The value provided as the current password is incorrect.
• Computer failed to join domain from its current workgroup ‘WORKGROUP’ with following error message: The system cannot open the device or file specified.

Package installation

• aws: command not found

Policy Files

• chef push always regenerates the revision id and Policyfile.lock.json