[Originally posted this to opscode forum, got no response]

I’m testing out a free hosted chef-server account and multiple subcommands are failing with ‘Unexpected Errors’. Perhaps my version and the server version are incompatible?

OS: Ubuntu 12.04LTS

Local Chef: 10.12.0 (Installed through gem)

Local Ruby: 1.8.7

Also, the workstation machine has been manually configured, but the client(s) I’ve been experimenting with are launched with the Rackspace plugin (using ‘knife rackspace server create…’) The problem commands seem to fail when talking to the host chef-server, however, before it ever tries to modify the client, so I don’t believe that’s where the problem exists. The virtual-servers that are launched by ‘knife rackspace server create’ are launched properly but then deleting them with knife fails.

If I include a recipe in the run_list when I create the server, the recipe is properly added to the run_list. If I try to add it later or remove the one that there server was initialized with, those commands fail.

Here is the output of a few relevant commands (with stacktraces):

https://gist.github.com/7100ada3fd6690113697