Error in cinc-solo step

[martimorta]

Hi,
I tried the cookbook steps without success. I was using administrator powershell (if not the installation didn't go through) and then changed to (admin) cmd as explained in the ReadMe until I got stuck at the call of cinc-solo:

c:\cinc-project\cinc\bin\cinc-solo -c ros2-cookbooks\.chef\solo.rb -j ros2_windows.json

Firstly, following the instructions this call is done in the folder ros2-cookbooks/cookbooks/ros2_windows which doesn't have the ros2_windows.json.
Besides that, I don't have the .chef folder neither the solo.rb. When trying to run the call in from ros2-cookbooks (where there is the ros2_windows.json) it fails outputting what I copy below.

I haven't used these tools before, am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

C:\ros2-cookbooks>c:\cinc-project\cinc\bin\cinc-solo -c ros2-cookbooks\.chef\solo.rb -j ros2_windows.json
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: *****************************************
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: Did not find config file: C:/ros2-cookbooks/ros2-cookbooks/.chef/solo.rb. Using command line options instead.
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: *****************************************
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: No cookbooks directory found at or above current directory.  Assuming c:\cinc.
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: *****************************************
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: Did not find config file: C:/ros2-cookbooks/ros2-cookbooks/.chef/solo.rb. Using command line options instead.
[2020-08-21T22:22:52+01:00] WARN: *****************************************
Starting Cinc Client, version 16.4.41
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] ERROR: Role ros2-development (included by 'top level') is in the runlist but does not exist. Skipping expand.

================================================================================
Error expanding the run_list:
================================================================================

Missing Role(s) in Run List:
----------------------------
* ros2-development included by 'top level'

Original Run List
-----------------
* role[ros2-development]

System Info:
------------
chef_version=16.4.41
platform=windows
platform_version=10.0.18362
ruby=ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x64-mingw32]
program_name=c:/cinc-project/cinc/bin/cinc-solo
executable=c:/cinc-project/cinc/bin/cinc-solo


Running handlers:
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
Running handlers complete
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Cinc Client failed. 0 resources updated in 04 seconds
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to c:/ros2-cookbooks/ros2-cookbooks/.chef/local-mode-cache/cache/cinc-stacktrace.out
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
[2020-08-21T22:22:57+01:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::MissingRole: The expanded run list includes nonexistent roles: ros2-development

[brawner]

It looks like the big issue here is there is no solo.rb file, which tells chef where to find roles and recipes. I'll create a follow-up PR, but you can create a simple solo.rb in ros2-cookbooks/chef that looks like:

cookbook_path [File.join(File.expand_path("..", __FILE__), "ros2-cookbooks", "cookbooks")]
role_path [File.join(File.expand_path("..", __FILE__), "ros2-cookbooks", "roles")]
solo true

Then try running the cinc-solo command again.