can't load 'nodes' provisioner from load path

[smartb-pair]

We may be missing something easy, but we keep seeing this error when trying to use the 'nodes' plugin:

$ bundle exec kitchen converge postgres
-----> Starting Kitchen (v1.13.2)
>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ClientError
>>>>>> Message: Could not load the 'nodes' provisioner from the load path. Please ensure that your provisioner is installed as a gem or included in your Gemfile if using Bundler.
>>>>>> ----------------------
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details
>>>>>> Also try running `kitchen diagnose --all` for configuration

Our sanitized .kitchen.yml looks like this:

---
driver:
  name: joyent

transport:
  name: rsync

driver_config:
  joyent_version: '~7.0'
  joyent_username: smartb
  joyent_keyfile: <redacted>
  joyent_keyname: <redacted>
  joyent_url: https://eu-ams-1.api.joyent.com
  joyent_image_id: 643d5524-7eba-4a72-8fca-8dbb84d8d35d # ubuntu-certified-14.04
  joyent_flavor_id: k4-highcpu-kvm-3.75G
  username: ubuntu

provisioner:
  name: nodes
  require_chef_omnibus: 12.13.37

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-14.04

suites:
  - name: pgbouncer
    run_list:
      - recipe[postgres::pgbouncer]

  - name: postgres-primary
    run_list:
      - recipe[postgres::primary]

  - name: postgres-replica
    run_list:
      - recipe[postgres::replica]

cc: @arochaf @bixu

[mwrock]

Are you using chef-dk? If so which version? and are you using a Gemfile?

[smartb-pair]

We are using rbenv and a Gemfile:

$ rbenv versions
  system
* 2.3.1 (set by /Users/smartb/.rbenv/version

$ cat Gemfile
source "https://rubygems.org"

gem 'berkshelf'
gem 'foodcritic'
gem 'kitchen-joyent'
gem 'kitchen-sync'
gem 'kitchen-nodes'
gem 'kitchen-vagrant

[mwrock]

usually the root cause of those errors are some gem conflict somewhere. Try running with -l debug and that may reveal a nested load error. Also you need chef in your Gemfile which may be the problem.

[smartb-pair]

Yes, adding chef to the Gemfile seems to fix the 'can't load nodes' error. Maybe we can specify chef as a dependency for the kitchen-nodes gem, so that Bundler auto-installs it?

Also, we now see an error like this:

>>>>>>     Failed to complete #converge action: [scp: /tmp/kitchen/nodes/postgres-primary-ubuntu-1404.json: Permission denied
] on postgres-primary-ubuntu-1404
>>>>>>     Failed to complete #converge action: [scp: /tmp/kitchen/nodes/postgres-primary-ubuntu-1404.json: Permission denied
] on postgres-replica-ubuntu-1404

Will have another go at this in the morning, need to leave the office now.

[smartb-pair]

The permissions issue seems to go away if we destroy and re-test.

[legal90]

I've reproduced the same issue with ChefDK v0.18.13
The reason is the version constraint fortest-kitchen. Logfile .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log is pointing on this:

#...
E, [2016-11-03T11:21:11.778739 #30796] ERROR -- Kitchen: ---Nested Exception---
E, [2016-11-03T11:21:11.778755 #30796] ERROR -- Kitchen: Class: Gem::ConflictError
E, [2016-11-03T11:21:11.778774 #30796] ERROR -- Kitchen: Message: Unable to activate kitchen-nodes-0.8.0, because test-kitchen-1.12.0 conflicts with test-kitchen (~> 1.13)
E, [2016-11-03T11:21:11.778818 #30796] ERROR -- Kitchen: ----------------------
#...

[Blankf]

trying to work with nodes again but with newer version, got same error.

---Nested Exception---
D Class: Gem::ConflictError
D Message: Unable to activate kitchen-nodes-0.9.1, because test-kitchen-2.2.5 conflicts with test-kitchen (~> 1.13)
D ----------------------

[scalp42]

@Blankf if you're feeling adventurous, https://rubygems.org/gems/kitchen-nodes-scalp42 works

[jackyim1123]

chef exec gem install kitchen-nodes