private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass about rvm

[miah]

chef.rb

include_recipe "rvm::system"

rvm_default_ruby "ruby-1.9.2-p290@chef-rundeck" do
user node[:rundeck][:user]
action :create
end

rvm_gem "chef-rundeck" do
user node[:rundeck][:user]
ruby_string "ruby-1.9.2-p290@chef-rundeck"
source "RubyGems"
action :upgrade
end

[miah]

I think I included the wrong recipe (rvm::system), but even without that, or with user instead I get the same error. Thanks!

[fnichol]

Ok, I think I get this now. If you want RVM to be installed for the node[:rundeck][:user] (and not installed as root system-wide), then you would want to include the rvm::user_install recipe which only installs the RVM framework. You'd also need to ensure that the node[:rundeck][:user] user has already been created.

Do you have any better luck with this:

# chef.rb

include_recipe "rvm::user_install"

rvm_default_ruby "ruby-1.9.2-p290@chef-rundeck" do
  user node[:rundeck][:user]
end

rvm_gem "chef-rundeck" do
  user node[:rundeck][:user]
  ruby_string "ruby-1.9.2-p290@chef-rundeck"
  action :upgrade
end

[miah]

Hrm. No go. :( I made my little recipe look exactly like what you have above and here is the result. Do I need to update my chef-rvm cookbook maybe?

ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:08 +0000] INFO: Processing service[rundeckd] action enable (rundeck::server line 80)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:08 +0000] INFO: Processing gem_package[rvm] action nothing (rvm::default line 21)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:08 +0000] INFO: Processing package[sed] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:08 +0000] INFO: Processing package[grep] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[tar] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[gzip] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[bzip2] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[bash] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[curl] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing package[git-core] action install (rvm::user_install line 44)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: Processing template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc] action create (rvm::user_install line 135)
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc] owner changed to 6100
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] INFO: template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc] mode changed to 644
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] ERROR: template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc](rvm::user_install line 135) has had an error
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] ERROR: template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc](/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_recipe_helpers.rb:135:in rvmrc_template') had an error: ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc](rvm::user_install line 135) had an error: No such file or directory - /tmp/chef-rendered-template20111126-706-1hg2xwy-0 or /home/rundeck/.rvmrc ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:506:in rename'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:506:inmv' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1397:in fu_each_src_dest'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1413:infu_each_src_dest0' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1395:in fu_each_src_dest'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:495:inmv' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/provider/template.rb:47:in action_create'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/template.rb:48:inrender_template' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tempfile.rb:188:in open'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/template.rb:45:inrender_template' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/provider/template.rb:99:in render_with_context'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/provider/template.rb:39:inaction_create' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:437:in send'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:437:inrun_action' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:45:in run_action'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:inconverge' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in each'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:inconverge' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:incall' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call_iterator_block'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:instep' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in iterate'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:ineach_with_index' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:76:inconverge' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:312:in converge'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:160:inrun' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:239:in run_application'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:inloop' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in run_application'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:67:inrun' ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/chef-client:26 ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in load'
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:09 +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:11 +0000] FATAL: Saving node information to /var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:11 +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:11 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-50-19-147-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:35:11 +0000] FATAL: Errno::ENOENT: template[/home/rundeck/.rvmrc](rvm::user_install line 135) had an error: No such file or directory - /tmp/chef-rendered-template20111126-706-1hg2xwy-0 or /home/rundeck/.rvmrc

[miah]

Hrm. I realized I had some overrides set in my rundeck role. So I removed all that. My rundeck role just calls rundeck::chef after rundeck. rundeck::chef contains the recipe we're talking about here. So Now I'm back to this error...

ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:05 +0000] INFO: Processing rvm_environment[ruby-1.9.2-p290@rundeck] action create (rundeck::chef line 21)
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:05 +0000] ERROR: rvm_environment[ruby-1.9.2-p290@rundeck](rundeck::chef line 21) has had an error
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:05 +0000] ERROR: rvm_environment[ruby-1.9.2-p290@rundeck](/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rundeck/recipes/chef.rb:21:in from_file') had an error: ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com rvm_environment[ruby-1.9.2-p290@rundeck](rundeck::chef line 21) had an error: private method chomp' called for nil:NilClass
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_string_cache.rb:77:incanonical_ruby_string' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_string_cache.rb:50:in fetch'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_string_helpers.rb:55:innormalize_ruby_string' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rvm/providers/environment.rb:27:in load_current_resource'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:436:inrun_action' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:45:in run_action'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:inconverge' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in each'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:inconverge' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:incall' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call_iterator_block'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:instep' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in iterate'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:ineach_with_index' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:76:inconverge' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:312:in converge'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:160:inrun' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:239:in run_application'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:inloop' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in run_application'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:67:inrun' ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/bin/chef-client:26 ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in load'
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:05 +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:07 +0000] FATAL: Saving node information to /var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:07 +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:07 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-107-22-88-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:23:07 +0000] FATAL: NoMethodError: rvm_environment[ruby-1.9.2-p290@rundeck] (rundeck::chef line 21) had an error: private method`chomp' called for nil:NilClass

[jgrevich]

I ran into this issue/error as well and tracked it down to the default installer URL (or using an outdated version of the recipe). Try updating the recipe from git or overriding the installer_url to "http://get.rvm.io".

Please close the issue if that was the problem.

[fnichol]

Ah, that's great to know, thanks @jgrevich!

[fnichol]

I think we're good here, and I'll bug @miah at ChefConf if there's still any nagging issues.

[jeremyolliver]

This seems to be the error message encountered whenever the install rvm script fails (which from what I can see the actual download is here https://github.com/fnichol/chef-rvm/blob/master/libraries/chef_rvm_recipe_helpers.rb#L78)

I'm using chef behind an http proxy, and this seems to be causing the download to fail. If I run the curl manually, it goes through fine as I've got http_proxy setup as a variable in the shell environment (via /etc/environment) though I think this download doesn't load in the shell environment (or check if chef is configured to do so either), this can fail.

Support for http_proxy would be nice, but even failing that, I think there should really be an indication that there was an error in the download or installation before the script gets to this point, it's a bit of a misleading error message.

[brax4444]

On Chef 10.12.0:
[2012-08-21T23:44:43+00:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: rvm_default_ruby[ruby-1.9.3-p194@katipo](app-katipo::default line 42) had an error: NoMethodError: private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass

default line 42:
rvm_default_ruby 'ruby-1.9.3-p194@katipo' do

I verified my installer URL is correct. Another troubleshooting suggestion?

[2-718]

Problem resolved:

Using chef-rvm (git commit 6411f11), Chef 10.14.2, vagrant 1.0.5, CentOS 5.6 (minimalcentos56)

I had the same NoMethodError as above and found two contributing causes:

• my CentOS 5.6 CA certificates were too old, causing curl to abort the HTTPS connection
• the install_rvm method (chef_rvm_recipe_helpers.rb) lacks permission to create /usr/local/rvm

I fixed the first issue by adding the following to my default recipe:

remote_file '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt' do
  Chef::Log.info 'Updating CA certificates'
  source  'http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem'
  owner   'root'
  group   'root'
  mode    '0644'
end

The second issue was fixed by changing line 78 of cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_recipe_helpers.rb:

Before:

command "curl -L #{opts[:installer_url]} | bash #{opts[:script_flags]}"

After:

command "curl -L #{opts[:installer_url]} | sudo bash #{opts[:script_flags]}"

I'm not familiar enough with Chef to know whether there's a more effective way to update the CA certificates, nor whether chef-rvm can provide better diagnostics to pinpoint the source of the failure.

Also, I don't like inserting sudo into the bash command because I don't think it will do the right thing when installing a user RVM (I'm using the system-wide installation).

[cromulus]

For those of you showing up here because the get.rvm.io ssl certificate has expired, you can, in the short run (untill they fix the certificate) add this to your config:

node['rvm']['installer_url']="https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer"

[phumpal]

Thanks @cromulus - saved the day.

[Xorelock]

I'm running into the same problem as @jeremyolliver . Can you add support for http_proxy and https_proxy?

[lock]

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.