[2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] INFO: Storing updated cookbooks/user/attributes/default.rb in the cache.

Recipe Compile Error in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/user/attributes/default.rb

IndexError

string not matched

Cookbook Trace:

/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/user/attributes/default.rb:24:in []=' /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/user/attributes/default.rb:24:infrom_file'

Relevant File Content:

/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/user/attributes/default.rb:

19: # limitations under the License. 20: # 21: 22: case platform 23: when 'debian','ubuntu','redhat','centos','amazon','scientific','fedora','freebsd','suse' 24>> default['user']['home_root'] = "/home" 25: default['user']['default_shell'] = "/bin/bash" 26: when 'openbsd' 27: default['user']['home_root'] = "/home" 28: default['user']['default_shell'] = "/bin/ksh" 29: when 'mac_os_x', 'mac_os_x_server' 30: default['user']['home_root'] = "/Users" 31: default['user']['default_shell'] = "/bin/bash" 32: else 33: default['user']['home_root'] = "/home"

[2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers [2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] FATAL: Saving node information to /var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json [2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete [2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out [2012-11-01T03:02:10+00:00] FATAL: IndexError: string not matched

chef should autovivify the attributes. I'll try to reproduce this. ideally we should not need to initialize the parent attribute

@atz I've just become a collaborator on this project and I'm looking at old tickets. Are you still having issues with this? Are you able to provide some steps to reproduce the problem?