Error: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo (Packer)
Fixes Packer provisioners failing on sudo with 'you must have a tty'. For engineers whose shell provisioner dies on sudo commands, the fix is allocating a pseudo-TTY.
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Fixes Packer provisioners failing on sudo with 'you must have a tty'. For engineers whose shell provisioner dies on sudo commands, the fix is allocating a pseudo-TTY.
Fixed upstream in PR #11431, which is packaged into knife 17.3.48 and newer (and backported into still-supported chef 16.x lines like 16.16.13). Verify the knife gem version on your workstation and upgrade so knife is at 17.3.48 or newer. As a temporary workaround, adding the --require-pty flag to the knife ssh comman…
Problem outcome: unknown
Running knife ssh against multiple hosts with a sudo command (e.g. knife ssh 'chef_environment:blah' 'sudo uptime') failed with an ArgumentError, while the same command without sudo worked fine. The bug was in the ssh session handling when a pseudo-terminal was needed for sudo across multiple sessions. The failure onl…
Problem outcome: unknown
Chef's behavior is technically correct; the bug was in JFrog Artifactory, which did case-insensitive search without a version but case-sensitive lookup with one. Upgrade Artifactory to 6.1.0 or later, where the issue was fixed upstream, and the same chocolatey_package resource with a version works. Several reporters c…
Problem outcome: unknown
The chocolatey_package resource failed to install a package when a version was specified, because Chef lowercased the package name before querying the source. With a case-sensitive Artifactory Chocolatey repo, the lowercased name did not match, so the install failed. Without a version the case-insensitive search worke…
Problem outcome: unknown