{"id":9887,"date":"2022-11-22T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=9887"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:12:28","slug":"chef-error-nomethoderror-undefined-method-preferred_filename_on_disk_location-for-nilnilclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/chef-error-nomethoderror-undefined-method-preferred_filename_on_disk_location-for-nilnilclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Error: NoMethodError: undefined method `preferred_filename_on_disk_location&#8217; for nil:NilClass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;2022-11-22T07:43:11+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to \/var\/chef\/cache\/chef-stacktrace.out\r\n&#91;2022-11-22T07:43:11+00:00] FATAL: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n&#91;2022-11-22T07:43:11+00:00] FATAL: PLEASE PROVIDE THE CONTENTS OF THE stacktrace.out FILE (above) IF YOU FILE A BUG REPORT\r\n&#91;2022-11-22T07:43:11+00:00] FATAL: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n&#91;2022-11-22T07:43:11+00:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: template&#91;\/var\/www\/html\/index.html] ((chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe) line 3) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined method `preferred_filename_on_disk_location' for nil:NilClass\r\n&#91;root@ip-172-31-11-246 template]# ls \/opt\/chef-workstation\/bin\/chef-apply\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\r\nIt seems like chef-apply is not able to run the template resource properly (see https:\/\/tickets.opscode.com\/browse\/CHEF-5317). 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