Greg Albrecht

Required Packages

From the Solaris 10 OS Companion Software CD install the packages below, this will get you up and running with Ruby 1.3.5:

1. SFWruby
2. SFWrline
3. SFWncur
4. SFWcoreu

Install & Update RubyGems

In this step we’ll install a version of RubyGems compatible with our version of Ruby, 1.3.5.

cd /tmp
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
gtar -zxf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
/opt/sfw/bin/ruby setup.rb
/opt/sfw/bin/gem install rubygems-update
/opt/sfw/bin/gem update --system

Who the hell is Steve?

To avoid the error message below, run:

mkdir -p /export/home/steve/work/usr/src/tools
ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gcc /export/home/steve/work/usr/src/tools/gcc

make
/export/home/steve/work/usr/src/tools/gcc -I/usr/sfw/include -I/export/home/steve/work/proto/root_i386/opt/sfw/include -I. -I/opt/sfw/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-solaris2.10 -I/opt/sfw/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-solaris2.10 -I. -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -c generator.c
sh: /export/home/steve/work/usr/src/tools/gcc: not found

Install Chef with RubyGems

gem install chef

Oh no!

At this point you’ll get this error when attempting to run ‘chef-client’:

ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/sfw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.4.2/ext/json/ext/json/ext/parser.so: symbol RSTRING_PTR: referenced symbol not found
Killed

Worry not! See below.

Replace json with json_pure

gem uninstall json
gem install json_pure --version 1.4.2
cat /opt/sfw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/json_pure-1.4.2.gemspec | sed s/json_pure/json/g > /opt/sfw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.4.2.gemspec
cp -pr /opt/sfw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json_pure-1.4.2 /opt/sfw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.4.2

Victory!

chef-client

[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:09 -0700] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present – registering
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:10 -0700] WARN: HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found: Cannot load node stress10.
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:11 -0700] INFO: Starting Chef Run (Version 0.9.8)
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:11 -0700] WARN: Node stress10. has an empty run list.
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:11 -0700] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.830921 seconds
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:11 -0700] INFO: Running report handlers
[Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:21:11 -0700] INFO: Report handlers complete

Done!