machine_file fails with NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

[Mike Kingsbury]

Very simple attempt of provisioning a VMware VM. The VM gets created, runs a recipe. It then fails in the machine_file statement in the provisioning recipe. I'm trying to upload RPMs to the newly created VM. Sample.txt contains the provisioning recipe, chef-provision-output.txt contains the chef provision -D run. Is anyone aware of a bug in here?

• run 'chef-client -c /etc/chef/client.rb -l info' on dev-box-1

• machine_file[/tmp/cacheio.rpm] action upload

  ================================================================================
  Error executing action upload on resource 'machine_file[/tmp/cacheio.rpm]'

  NoMethodError

  undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

  Resource Declaration:

  In /Users/mkingsbury/chef-repo/cookbooks/sample/recipes/default.rb

  43: machine_file '/tmp/cacheio.rpm' do
  44: machine 'dev-box-1'
  45: local_path '/tmp/cacheio.rpm'
  46: action :upload
  47: end

  Compiled Resource:

  Declared in /Users/mkingsbury/chef-repo/cookbooks/sample/recipes/default.rb:43:in `from_file'

  machine_file("/tmp/cacheio.rpm") do
  action [:upload]
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  default_guard_interpreter :default
  chef_server {:chef_server_url=>"https://chef.cacheio.com/organizations/cacheio", :options=>{:client_name=>"mkingsbury", :signing_key_filename=>"/Users/mkingsbury/.chef/mkingsbury.pem", :api_version=>"0"}}
  declared_type :machine_file
  cookbook_name :sample
  recipe_name "default"
  machine "dev-box-1"
  local_path "/tmp/cacheio.rpm"
  path "/tmp/cacheio.rpm"
  end

  Platform:

  x86_64-darwin14

Error: Chef failed to converge: machine_file[/tmp/cacheio.rpm] (sample::default line 43) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined method []' for nil:NilClass Reason: (NoMethodError) machine_file[/tmp/cacheio.rpm] (sample::default line 43) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined method []' for nil:NilClass

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sample.txt