Default recipe wants `--force-yes` to install 1.2.9

[hayesmp]

This appears to be the error: STDERR: E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes

[2013-10-22T21:26:52+00:00] DEBUG: package[cassandra] current version is 2.0.1 [2013-10-22T21:26:52+00:00] DEBUG: package[cassandra] candidate version is 2.0.1 [2013-10-22T21:26:52+00:00] DEBUG: Executing apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: ---- Begin output of apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 ---- [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: STDOUT: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: jsvc libcommons-daemon-java Suggested packages: java-virtual-machine The following NEW packages will be installed: jsvc libcommons-daemon-java The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: cassandra 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 83 not upgraded. Need to get 13.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 87.0 kB disk space will be freed. [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: STDERR: E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: ---- End output of apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 ---- [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: Ran apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 returned 100

================================================================================ Error executing action install on resource 'package[cassandra]'

Chef::Exceptions::Exec

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apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 returned 100, expected 0 ---- Begin output of apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 ---- STDOUT: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: jsvc libcommons-daemon-java Suggested packages: java-virtual-machine The following NEW packages will be installed: jsvc libcommons-daemon-java The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: cassandra 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 83 not upgraded. Need to get 13.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 87.0 kB disk space will be freed.STDERR: E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes ---- End output of apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 ----

Resource Declaration:

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In /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-1/cassandra/recipes/datastax.rb

69:     package "cassandra" do
70:       action :install
71:       version node[:cassandra][:version]
72:     end
73:   end

Compiled Resource:

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Declared in /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-1/cassandra/recipes/datastax.rb:69:in `from_file'

package("cassandra") do action [:install] retries 0 retry_delay 2 package_name "cassandra" version "1.2.9" cookbook_name :cassandra recipe_name "datastax" end

[2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] INFO: Running queued delayed notifications before re-raising exception [2013-10-22T21:26:53+00:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::Exec - package[cassandra](cassandra::datastax line 69) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: apt-get -q -y install cassandra=1.2.9 returned 100, expected 0

[michaelklishin]

This is not a cookbook issue. apt fails to downgrade the package. There can be numerous issues causing this. Try installing it manually to see more info.

[michaelklishin]

Googling around a bit suggests that the most common issue is apt index being out of date. There is an apt cookbook (e.g. in travis-cookbooks) that runs apt-get update and should be one of the first on run list.

Alternatively, the package resource has an attribute, options, that is passed to apt as is. So if you really want to use --force-yes, you can add it in your copy of the cookbook. This is a pretty fragile workaround, though.

[hayesmp]

Are there any guides to getting this setup beyond the recipe? I am completely lost. I'm trying to get a basic local instance up and running to use with Usergrid.