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PODeleting a Knife client without a private key?
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    copied!<p>I've joined a new company and to get caught up to speed, I've been playing with Vagrant for my VM. I had my system nearly set up and then a weird error forced me to shut off my laptop without disconnecting via <code>vagrant destroy</code>. Now when trying to get set, I run <code>vagrant up</code> and get the following error message.</p> <pre><code> [default] Running provisioner: Vagrant::Provisioners::ChefClient... [default] Creating folder to hold client key... [default] Uploading chef client validation key... [default] Generating chef JSON and uploading... [default] Running chef-client... stdin: is not a tty [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:20 -0500] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.2 *** [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:20 -0500] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:21 -0500] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 409 Conflict: Client already exists. [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:22 -0500] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 403 Forbidden: Merb::ControllerExceptions::Forbidden [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:22 -0500] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /srv/chef/file_store/chef-stacktrace.out [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:20:22 -0500] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 403 "Forbidden" The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed! chef-client -c /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/client.rb -j /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/dna.json </code></pre> <p>Now from my own research I see that this means a client already exists with the name specified, so I decided to manually shut it down. I tried to list all the knife clients with <code>knife client list</code> but then got the following message:</p> <pre><code> WARNING: No knife configuration file found ERROR: Your private key could not be loaded from /etc/chef/client.pem Check your configuration file and ensure that your private key is readable </code></pre> <p>Strange. I know knife.rb exists, I see it when I <code>ls</code> so I don't know how the knife configuration file couldn't exist. I can't see my knife clients without this private key apparently. I'm completely new to Vagrant, Knife AND Chef so I'm stumped.</p> <p>Thoughts?</p>
 

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