Chef server error on create user (/etc/opscode/pivotal.rb does not exist)

Question

I am extremely new to chef and I am attempting to create a chef server running on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.04 droplet. I am using this guide for the install. I download the .deb and installed it fine. I then run chef-server-ctl reconfigure which runs without an issue. When I go to create my user I enter in all the details and run it, it then waits a few seconds and returns the error ERROR: CONFIGURATION ERROR:Specified config file /etc/opscode/pivotal.rb does not exist

I have scoured the internet to try and find a fix but haven't been able to find a thing. I have also tried doing these exact steps on a VPS running Ubuntu 12.04.5 and getting identical results.

Answer 1

For /etc/opscode/pivotal.pem is missing error use following command.

cp /opt/opscode/embedded/service/omnibus-ctl/spec/fixtures/pivotal.pem /etc/opscode/

Answer 2

Ran into the same thing when trying to install chef in an VM.

Expanding the memory (from 512Mb to 1512Mb) and reran reconfigure solved it for me.

Answer 3

Same problem here. An older version, for example 12.03 of chef-server works for me with Ubuntu 14.04