I’m diving into the fun world of Chef. But I’m doing it on Windows, which has been…not smooth. Here’s my latest error:
C:\Users\mharen\Code\chef-repo>knife cookbook site install getting-started Installing getting-started to C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks Checking out the master branch. Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-getting-started) exists, switching to it. Downloading getting-started from the cookbooks site at version 0.4.0 to C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz Cookbook saved: C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz Removing pre-existing version. Uncompressing getting-started version 0.4.0. ERROR: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '2' ---- Begin output of tar zxvf C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz ---- STDOUT: STDERR: tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ---- End output of tar zxvf C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz ---- Ran tar zxvf C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz returned 2
Lame. After wasting an embarrassingly large amount of time on this issue, I figured it out: I had multiple installs of the `tar` command:
C:\Users\mharen\Code\chef-repo>which -a tar C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin\tar.EXE C:\chef\bin\tar.EXE c:\Git\bin\tar.EXE
And apparently some of them suck. Hard. Since I’m playing with Chef, let’s just use that one—it probably works. This was as easy as updating my PATH variable to place `c:\chef\bin` at the beginning instead of the end (really just before the others found by `which`):
Once you fix the path, close and reopen your cmd window and try the command again:
C:\Users\mharen\Code\chef-repo>which -a tar C:\chef\bin\tar.EXE c:\Git\bin\tar.EXE C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin\tar.EXE C:\Users\mharen\Code\chef-repo>knife cookbook site install getting-started Installing getting-started to C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks Checking out the master branch. Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-getting-started) exists, switching to it. Downloading getting-started from the cookbooks site at version 0.4.0 to C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz Cookbook saved: C:/Users/mharen/Code/chef-repo/cookbooks/getting-started.tar.gz Removing pre-existing version. Uncompressing getting-started version 0.4.0. removing downloaded tarball 1 files updated, committing changes Creating tag cookbook-site-imported-getting-started-0.4.0 Checking out the master branch. Updating b5a1d0d..42a8168 Fast-forward cookbooks/getting-started/README.rdoc | 4 +++ cookbooks/getting-started/attributes/default.rb | 1 + cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.json | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++ cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.rb | 6 +++++ cookbooks/getting-started/recipes/default.rb | 23 +++++++++++++++++ .../templates/default/chef-getting-started.txt.erb | 5 ++++ 6 files changed, 68 insertions(+) create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/README.rdoc create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/attributes/default.rb create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.json create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/metadata.rb create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/recipes/default.rb create mode 100644 cookbooks/getting-started/templates/default/chef-getting-started.txt.erb Cookbook getting-started version 0.4.0 successfully installed C:\Users\mharen\Code\chef-repo>
All fixed :)
