'unicode' object has no attribute 'keys'

Question

I am having serious problem while adding .config in .ebextensions directory to install imagemagick package in Amazon Linux managed under Elastic Beanstalk. I used

packages:
        yum:
            ImageMagick: []

When I tried to deploy the war from ELB console, process completed with error

[Instance: i-531ab77a Module: AWSEBAutoScalingGroup ConfigSet: null] Command failed on instance. Return code: 1 Output: Error occurred during build: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'keys' .

Answer 1

Make sure you have a space between "ImageMagick:" and "[]".

I was able to reproduce this error when I used "ImageMagick:[]" instead:

[Instance: i-7079d32d Module: AWSEBAutoScalingGroup ConfigSet: null] Command failed on instance. Return code: 1 Output: Error occurred during build: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'keys' .

Answer 2

I got same error for

sources:
      /home/ec2-user  http://azxc.net/certs.zip

Forgot to add ":" , This fixed error:

sources:
      /home/ec2-user:  http://azxc.net/certs.zip