[chef] initial knife setup

[Tim Dunphy < >]

hello list,

Forgive my ignorance but I am new to chef.

I'm attempting to setup a knife client against a chef 10 (open source ). But when I run the following commands I get the following errors:

:~] #knife configure --initial

Overwrite /root/.chef/knife.rb? (Y/N) Y

Please enter the chef server URL: [http://chef.jokefire.com:4000]

Please enter a name for the new user: [root] jf-admin

Please enter the existing admin name: [admin] chef-webui

Please enter the location of the existing admin's private key: [/etc/chef/admin.pem] /etc/chef/webui.pem

Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator]

Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef/validation.pem]

Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank): /root/chef/chef-repo

Creating initial API user...

Please enter a password for the new user:

ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.jokefire.com:4000/users, retrying 1/5 in 4s

ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.jokefire.com:4000/users, retrying 2/5 in 5s

ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.jokefire.com:4000/users, retrying 3/5 in 13s

ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.jokefire.com:4000/users, retrying 4/5 in 23s

ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.jokefire.com:4000/users, retrying 5/5 in 48s

ERROR: internal server error

Response: undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass

Can someone point me in the right direction?

thanks

tim

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