Provisioning Vagrant with Chef role error - vagrant

Question

I'm relatively new to Chef, and I'm trying to setup a Vagrant Box using Digital Ocean as a provider and Chef as a provisioner. The issue seems to be with the roles, but as far as I can tell, they match up fine. Thanks.
Here is my Vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest
config.vm.provider :digital_ocean do |provider, override|
config.vm.hostname = 'majestic-chaos-ubuntu14.04x64'
override.ssh.private_key_path = '~/.ssh/id_rsa'
override.vm.box = 'digital_ocean'
provider.token = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'
provider.image = 'Ubuntu 14.04 x64'
provider.region = 'nyc2'
provider.size = '512mb'
end
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = ['../../cookbooks']
chef.roles_path = ['../../roles']
chef.add_role ("majestic-chaos-ubuntu14.04x64")
end
end
and my roles file:
name "majestic-chaos-ubuntu-14.04x64"
ssl_verify_mode :verify_peer
run_list(
"recipe[apt]",
"recipe[open-ssl]",
"recipe[build-essential]",
"recipe[chef-ruby_build]",
"recipe[nodejs-cookbook]",
"recipe[rbenv::user]",
"recipe[rbenv::vagrant]",
"recipe[zsh]",
"recipe[vim]",
"recipe[imagemagick]",
)
override_attributes(
rbenv: {
user_installs: [{
user: 'vagrant',
rubies: ["2.1.2"],
global: "2.1.2",
gems: {
"2.1.2" => [
{ name: "bundler" }
]
}
}]
}
)
And this is the error I'm getting:
[2014-09-18T16:05:48-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.16.2 ***
[2014-09-18T16:05:48-04:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 2934
[2014-09-18T16:05:51-04:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["role[majestic-chaos-
ubuntu14.04x64]"] from CLI options
default: [2014-09-18T16:05:51-04:00] ERROR: Role majestic-chaos-ubuntu14.04x64 (included
by 'top level') is in the runlist but does not exist. Skipping expand.
[2014-09-18T16:05:51-04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-
stacktrace.out
[2014-09-18T16:05:51-04:00] ERROR: The expanded run list includes nonexistent roles:
majestic-chaos-ubuntu14.04x64
[2014-09-18T16:05:51-04:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process
exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

Answer 1

I had a similar problem when launching a Vagrant image where the roles file was not being picked up. The solution I found for that was that for the kitchen.yml file the roles file should be in JSON format. (The roles file listed above does not look like JSON).
As documented here: https://docs.chef.io/config_yml_kitchen.html
roles_path The relative path to the directory in which role data is located. This data must be defined as JSON.
Here are a few ruby commands to convert your .rb to JSON
require 'chef'
role = Chef::Role.new
role.from_file("./roles/useful_api_role.rb")
puts JSON.pretty_generate(role)
As a side effect, this above code will load up an rb config and you can validate that it's producing the role variables you expect.

Answer 2

Try using absolute paths for the roles and cookbooks:
chef.cookbooks_path = File.expand_path('../../cookbooks', __FILE__)
chef.roles_path = File.expand_path('../../roles', __FILE__)