Error on restoring backup (migrate chef 10 to latest 11)

mdxp / knife-backup

knife plugin to help backup and restore a chef server.

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Error on restoring backup (migrate chef 10 to latest 11) #31

Closed fs-dev closed 9 years ago

fs-dev commented 9 years ago

WARNING: This will overwrite existing data! Do you want to restore backup, possibly overwriting exisitng data? (Y/N) Y === Restoring clients === ruby: yajl_parser.c:151: yajl_do_parse: Assertion `(hand->stateStack).used > 0' failed. Aborted

fs-dev commented 9 years ago

Restoring should be done on the new chef 11. (Transfer the backup from chef 10 to 11)

mwalton236 commented 9 years ago

This error occurs if you are using an old version of chef-client (e.g. chef gem version 11.4.4) 11.6.0 upwards should work