rvm cookbook fails installing ruby within vagrant

2
votes

I've been running into issues when trying to run the rvm::user recipe from fnichol/chef-rvm. I'm using chef along with a Vagrant box. rvm installs fine, but every time chef tries to install a ruby, it fails with this error:

WARN: Failed to install rvm_ruby[ruby-1.9.3-p448]. Check logs in /log/ruby-1.9.3-p448

Here's my Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box       = 'precise32'
  config.vm.box_url   = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box'

  config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe "rvm::vagrant" 
    chef.add_recipe "rvm::user"

    chef.json = {
      :rvm => {
        :user_installs => [
           {
              :user => "vagrant",
              :default_ruby => "1.9.3",
              :rubies => ["1.9.3"],
              :global_gems => [
                  { :name => 'bundler' }
              ],                   
           }
        ]
      }
  end
end
  • Environment Details:
    • Vagrant version: 1.2.7
    • Vagrant vm: precise32
    • rvm version: 1.22.11
    • chef-rvm ref: 59dc482
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rvmchef-infravagrant

2 Answers

3
votes

It turns out that Vagrant was running chef in a non-interactive/non-tty session. The sudo command doesn't like to run in non-interactive sessions, and causes rvm to fail when it tries install dependencies (via apt-get in ubuntu).

You can allow sudo to run non-interactively by adding this to /etc/sudoers:

vagrant  ALL= (ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Once I added this, chef installed the rvm::user recipe successfully.

0
votes

My setup was much more complicated, however the error was the same. Ultimately i found that adding the apt chef recipe fixed everything.

chef.add_recipe "apt" 
chef.add_recipe "rvm::vagrant" 
chef.add_recipe "rvm::user"

> Run List is [recipe[apt], recipe[curl], recipe[rvm::vagrant], recipe[rvm::user]]

Adding the line 

vagrant ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

didn't work for my scenario.

I believe the apt chef recipe runs apt update which fixes an issue with old and ill matched versions.

The error messages i received were

Error executing action `install` on resource 'package[libxml2-dev]'
apt-get -q -y install libxml2-dev=2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.1 returned 100, expected 0
....
Error executing action `install` on resource 'rvm_ruby[2.1.1]'