Chef Zero Fails to Start - Multiple Gem Paths

[harlanbarnes]

Pretty simple setup for my first pass at using chef-zero ...

[harlan@clay zabbix]$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
[default] Importing base box 'CentOS-6.4-x86_64-Minimal'...
[default] Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
[default] Setting the name of the VM...
[default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
[Chef Zero] Starting Chef Zero at http://10.20.55.149:4000
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start
[Chef Zero] Waiting for Chef Zero to start`

And it never starts ...

I poked around some and it seems like this line in lib/vagrant-chef-zero/server_helpers.rb seems like it expects to find only one directory:

vagrant_gems = ENV['GEM_PATH'].split(':').select { |gp| gp.include?('vagrant')}

but (at least on my system it finds two):

/home/harlan/.vagrant.d/gems
/opt/vagrant/bin/../embedded/gems

So then the next line joins the two together and adds the bin/chef-zero:

chef_zero_binary = ::File.join(vagrant_gems, "bin", "chef-zero")

to form this:

/home/harlan/.vagrant.d/gems/opt/vagrant/bin/../embedded/gems/bin/chef-zero

which obviously fails.

To work around this problem I just added a '.d' to the include and got it to start:

vagrant_gems = ENV['GEM_PATH'].split(':').select { |gp| gp.include?('vagrant.d')}

I have no idea if that's a good idea or not. :-)

Here's my setup if it matters:

[harlan@clay ~]$ lsb_release -d
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
[harlan@clay ~]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-linux]
[harlan@clay ~]$ vagrant -v
Vagrant version 1.2.2
[harlan@clay ~]$ vagrant plugin list
buff-config (0.2.0)
vagrant-berkshelf (1.3.2)
vagrant-chef-zero (0.2.4)
vagrant-omnibus (1.1.0)

[andrewgross]

Sorry for the delay in getting to this. Fixed in f87518e and released in 0.2.10

[jgoldschrafe]

Now this is broken for people who have vagrant-chef-zero installed through Bindler, since their chef-zero path is something more like ${COOKBOOK_DIR}/.vagrant/gems/bin/chef-zero. I'm sending a PR your way momentarily that looks for the chef-zero binary in a somewhat saner way.