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Suddenly, today, Chef client starts failing with message as below. Running Chef client manually with -l debug doesn't give more clues.

[2016-08-15T16:30:26+02:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
  Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 7.09035028 seconds
[2016-08-15T16:30:26+02:00] ERROR: undefined method `cheffish' for nil:NilClass
[2016-08-15T16:30:26+02:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccess
(exit code 1)

Why is this happening?

onknows
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Which version of Chef-client you are running?

It was a bug in "12.4.0". This error comes probably when "name" attribute in metadata.rb goes missing. It was fixed in later versions where the metadata.rb is validated first before the chef execution. But, it can happen with lot more of reasons apart of above.

You may also like to refer:

undefined method "cheffish" for nil:NilClass, when provisioning chef with vagrant

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  • I am using 12.4.1. I btw resolved this issue by removing all cookbooks with knife cookbook delete and then running chef-client again. – onknows Aug 16 '16 at 07:25