I have problem with gem knife-solo. first of all i want to explain my error and investigation about it.
First,after i knife solo cook. i got an error with runtime.
RuntimeError: Couldn't find Chef >=0.10.4 on myhost. Please run `knife solo prepare root@myhost` to ensure Chef is installed and up to date.
and then i search in uncle google :-D i found this way link
and this's my error got from `knife solo cook root@myhost -VV
$ knife solo cook root@ipaddress -c solo.rb -i /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem -VV
Starting 'Run'
Checking Chef version...
Enter the password for root@ipaddress:
DEBUG: Initial command sudo chef-solo --version
DEBUG: Initial command sudo -V
DEBUG: Running processed command sudo -V
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Sudo version 1.8.3p1
Configure options: --prefix=/usr -v --with-all-insults --with-pam --with-fqdn --with-logging=syslog --with-logfac=authpriv --with-env-editor --with-editor=/usr/bin/editor --with-timeout=15 --with-password-timeout=0 --with-passprompt=[sudo] password for %p: --without-lecture --with-tty-tickets --disable-root-mailer --enable-admin-flag --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail --with-timedir=/var/lib/sudo --mandir=/usr/share/man --libexecdir=/usr/lib/sudo
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Sudoers policy plugin version 1.8.3p1
Sudoers file grammar version 40
Sudoers path: /etc/sudoers
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Authentication methods: 'pam'
Syslog facility if syslog is being used for logging: authpriv
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Syslog priority to use when user authenticates successfully: notice
Syslog priority to use when user authenticates unsuccessfully: alert
Send mail if user authentication fails
Send mail if the user is not in sudoers
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Use a separate timestamp for each user/tty combo
Lecture user the first time they run sudo
Require users to authenticate by default
Root may run sudo
Allow some information gathering to give useful error messages
Require fully-qualified hostnames in the sudoers file
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Visudo will honor the EDITOR environment variable
Set the LOGNAME and USER environment variables
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Length at which to wrap log file lines (0 for no wrap): 80
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Authentication timestamp timeout: 15.0 minutes
Password prompt timeout: 0.0 minutes
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Number of tries to enter a password: 3
Umask to use or 0777 to use user's: 022
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Path to mail program: /usr/sbin/sendmail
Flags for mail program: -t
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Address to send mail to: root
Subject line for mail messages: *** SECURITY information for %h ***
Incorrect password message: Sorry, try again.
Path to authentication timestamp dir: /var/lib/sudo
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Default password prompt: [sudo] password for %p:
Default user to run commands as: root
Value to override user's $PATH with: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Path to the editor for use by visudo: /usr/bin/editor
When to require a password for 'list' pseudocommand: any
When to require a password for 'verify' pseudocommand: all
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: File descriptors >= 3 will be closed before executing a command
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Reset the environment to a default set of variables
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Environment variables to check for sanity:
TERM
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
LINGUAS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
LC_*
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: LANGUAGE
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: LANG
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: COLORTERM
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Environment variables to remove:
RUBYOPT
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: RUBYLIB
PYTHONUSERBASE
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: PYTHONINSPECT
PYTHONPATH
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: PYTHONHOME
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: TMPPREFIX
ZDOTDIR
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
READNULLCMD
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: NULLCMD
FPATH
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
PERL5DB
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: PERL5OPT
PERL5LIB
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: PERLLIB
PERLIO_DEBUG
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
SHELLOPTS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: GLOBIGNORE
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
PS4
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
BASH_ENV
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: ENV
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: TERMCAP
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: TERMPATH
TERMINFO_DIRS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: TERMINFO
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
_RLD*
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: LD_*
PATH_LOCALE
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: NLSPATH
HOSTALIASES
RES_OPTIONS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: LOCALDOMAIN
CDPATH
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: IFS
Environment variables to preserve:
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: XAUTHORIZATION
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: XAUTHORITY
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: TZ
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: PS2
PS1
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
PATH
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: LS_COLORS
KRB5CCNAME
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
HOSTNAME
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: HOME
DISPLAY
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout:
COLORS
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Locale to use while parsing sudoers: C
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Directory in which to store input/output logs
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: File in which to store the input/output log
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Add an entry to the utmp/utmpx file when allocating a pty
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Local IP address and netmask pairs:
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: ipaddress/255.255.255.0
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: fe80::250:56ff:feb0:1934/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
DEBUG: sudo -V stdout: Sudoers I/O plugin version 1.8.3p1
DEBUG: Running processed command sudo -p 'knife sudo password: ' chef-solo --version
DEBUG: sudo -p 'knife sudo password: ' chef-solo --version stdout: sudo: chef-solo: command not found
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/knife-solo-0.2.0/lib/chef/knife/solo_cook.rb:161:in 'check_chef_version': Couldn't find Chef >=0.10.4 on ipaddress. Please run knife solo prepare root@ipaddress -i /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem' to ensure Chef is installed and up to date. (RuntimeError)
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/knife-solo-0.2.0/lib/chef/knife/solo_cook.rb:63:in 'block in run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/knife-solo-0.2.0/lib/chef/knife/solo_cook.rb:122:in 'time'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/knife-solo-0.2.0/lib/chef/knife/solo_cook.rb:55:in 'run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/chef-11.12.8/lib/chef/knife.rb:492:in 'run_with_pretty_exceptions'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/chef-11.12.8/lib/chef/knife.rb:174:in 'run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/chef-11.12.8/lib/chef/application/knife.rb:135:in 'run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/chef-11.12.8/bin/knife:25:in '<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/knife:19:in 'load'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/knife:19:in '<main>'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in 'eval'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in '<main>’
so decide it to add --no-chef-check and i didn't get error with "couldn't find chef". and i test it got this error
$knife solo cook root@ipaddress -c solo.rb -i /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem --no-chef-check
Enter the password for root@ipaddress:
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@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
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Permissions 0644 for '/Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem
root@ipaddress's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@ipaddress's password:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem
root@ipaddress's password:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /Users/me/Documents/WORK/project/certificate.pem
root@ipaddress's password:
sudo: chef-solo: command not found
ERROR: RuntimeError: chef-solo failed. See output above.
