chef-server-ctl install opscode-manage failing with -->> ChefNoMethodError: undefined method `>' for nil:NilClass

[uditjh]

Please ignore my error as I know this isn't the right place to report this but this is related to the chef server installation. The initial install on CentOS 6 went fine using chef-solo and this cookbook but "chef-server-ctl install opscode-manage" is failing with an error in the private-chef cookbook which I'm not able to find anywhere on github or supermarket. Any ideas?

Complete stack trace below:

Generated at 2015-12-09 21:33:35 +0000
NoMethodError: yum_package[opscode-manage](private-chef::add_ons_remote line 16) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined method >' for nil:NilClass /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1075:inyum_command'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1258:in install_remote_package' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1269:ininstall_package'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:91:in block (2 levels) in action_install' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:217:inmultipackage_api_adapter'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:90:in block in action_install' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:incall'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:in add_action' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider.rb:175:inconverge_by'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:89:in action_install' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/provider.rb:144:inrun_action'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource.rb:589:in run_action' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:49:inrun_action'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in block (2 levels) in converge' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:ineach'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in block in converge' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/resource_list.rb:83:inblock in execute_each_resource'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:incall_iterator_block'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in step' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:initerate'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in each_with_index' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection/resource_list.rb:81:inexecute_each_resource'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:80:in converge' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:658:inblock in converge'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:653:in catch' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:653:inconverge'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:692:in converge_and_save' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:271:inrun'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/application.rb:252:in run_with_graceful_exit_option' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/application.rb:229:inblock in run_chef_client'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/local_mode.rb:44:in with_server_connectivity' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/application.rb:212:inrun_chef_client'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/application/client.rb:386:in run_application' /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/lib/chef/application.rb:60:inrun'
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-12.5.1/bin/chef-client:26:in <top (required)>' /opt/opscode/embedded/bin/chef-client:23:inload'
/opt/opscode/embedded/bin/chef-client:23:in `

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[james-s-nduka]

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/chef/stable/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo yum install opscode-manage
chef-server-ctl reconfigure
opscode-manage-ctl reconfigure

The above is a workaround that should be helpful.

[hrnmm]

thanks james. your workaround worked for me

[donbecker]

@james-s-nduka that worked for me as well on CentOS 6.6.

[tas50]

we're currently testing this scenario in the 5.0 release which uses a newer chef-ingredient cookbook, with a lot of improvements. I'm going to close this out unless someone is still encountering this problem with the 5.0 cookbook.