Chef knife site download return ContentLengthMismatch errors

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After I upgraded my chef client on mac to version 11.10.4, I couldn't use knife command to download cookbooks. I have latest knife version and latest xcode 5.1 for Mac. Does anyone know what seem to be the issue?

$ knife cookbook site list
ERROR: Chef::Exceptions::ContentLengthMismatch: Response body length 2219 does not match HTTP Content-Length header 659.

$ knife cookbook site download apt
ERROR: Chef::Exceptions::ContentLengthMismatch: Response body length 2830 does not match HTTP Content-Length header 439.

This question appears to be off-topic because it is a bug in the software and has already been reported at https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5100 — sethvargo, Mar 28 '14 at 16:20

sethvargo · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-29T14:50:06.060

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This was a reported bug in the latest release of Chef Client https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5100. You can downgrade your Chef installation and the problem will go away.

As pointed out in the comments, this has been fixed in 11.12.0.

edited Jul 29 '14 at 14:50

answered Mar 28 '14 at 16:20

sethvargo

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This bug was fixed in Chef client 11.12.0, so upgrading can also solve the issue. – spiffytech Jul 29 '14 at 14:37
Can anyone provide a direct link to a 11.12.0 Ubuntu .deb package, preferably which will install on 14.04-LTS? – fooquency Nov 09 '14 at 17:57
@fooquency just use the omnibus installer – sethvargo Nov 09 '14 at 19:02
@sethvargo Thanks; I've just discovered that that downloads packages in the background, making upgrading easy and within the scope of apt-get, it seems. That had been my concern. – fooquency Nov 09 '14 at 20:54

Chef knife site download return ContentLengthMismatch errors

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