Chef mysql opscode-cookbooks desn't work: “could not find recipe ruby for cookbook mysql”

Question

I'm tring to use https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/mysql but when I run vagrant provision

could not find recipe ruby for cookbook mysql it returns like this.

[2014-04-23T10:13:06+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2014-04-23T10:13:06+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2014-04-23T10:13:06+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2014-04-23T10:13:06+00:00] ERROR: could not find recipe ruby for cookbook mysql

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Recipe Compile Error
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Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound
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could not find recipe ruby for cookbook mysql

I found this then added mysql-chef_gem. https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/mysql/blob/b5072e6ae3bd81b0f6ebec8749f2c2d781271ed9/COMPAT.md

knife cookbook site vendor mysql-chef_gem -o cookbook

But when I add recipe[crossplat::default] in run_list, and run vagrant provision it returns

[2014-04-23T10:15:14+00:00] ERROR: Cookbook crossplat not found. If you're loading crossplat from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata

How can I solve that?

Answer 1

There was just a large refactor of the mysql cookbook and that recipe is no longer necessary. You can see the updated usage in the cookbook's README.

Answer 2

cookbooks/mysql/recipes/default.rb not available for mysql cookbook, you need update the run list "recipe[mysql::server]" or "recipe[mysql::client]"

Answer 3

I was getting a similar error for a different cookbook:

FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe my_recipe for cookbook my_cookbook

This resulted when I removed my_recipe.rb from under the cookbook at some point and the client still referencing it somewhere. The simple solution was to re-add a blank recipe file and re-uploading the cookbook. This blog describes the problem in more detail and might have a better solution: https://www.rallydev.com/community/engineering/chef-dependency-solving