ERROR: Cookbook loaded at path(s) has invalid metadata

Question

When I'm running:

:$ vagrant provision

or

:$ vagrant up

I have an error:

nisevi@localhost processor (master):$ vagrant provision
Using ssh deploy key of: /home/nisevi/.ssh/id_rsa
==> default: Chef 12.0.3 Omnibus package is already installed.
==> default: Running provisioner: shell...
    default: Running: inline script
==> default: W
==> default: : 
==> default: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages)
==> default: W
==> default: : Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages)
==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages)
==> default: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
==> default: W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
==> default: Running provisioner: chef_solo...
==> default: Detected Chef (latest) is already installed
Generating chef JSON and uploading...
==> default: Running chef-solo...
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 12.0.3 ***
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:42+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1224
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["role[processor]"] from CLI options
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Run List is [role[processor]]
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [opsworks_initial_setup, mysql::client, dependencies, opsworks_ganglia::client, deploy::default, ba-processor::setup, ba-processor::deploy, sidekiq::deploy, opsworks_ganglia::configure-client]
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for ubuntu1404-opsworks
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:50+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] WARN: found a directory vendor in the cookbook path, but it contains no cookbook files. skipping.
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] ERROR: Cookbook loaded at path(s) [/tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-2/cookbooks/tad-server] has invalid metadata: The `name' attribute is required in cookbook metadata
==> default: [2015-01-07T03:09:51+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

Does anyone know what is causing this error or to what is related?

Answer 1

As the error mentions, you must add name 'tad-server' the metadata.rb file in this cookbook. In days long past, this was optional so many people didn't put a metadata.rb in their cookbooks at all, but some tools now require this at a minimum. All other fields in the metadata remain optional, though version is highly recommended.