Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch when installing nginx-1.4.4 from source - nginx

Question

I am having the error described here:
Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch when installing nginx-1.7.8 from source
However, that fix does not work for me.
Following the suggestions on that page, I created a shasum:
shasum -a 256 nginx-1.4.4.tar
ed744d916a19e426fd6885e14036d64156f4b6f6aca1d22a1b9307de8d46e8d3 nginx-1.4.4.tar
then I opened this file:
vi /opt/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb
and I found this block:
remote_file nginx_url do
source nginx_url
checksum node['nginx']['source']['checksum']
path src_filepath
backup false
end
which I changed to this:
remote_file nginx_url do
source nginx_url
checksum 'ed744d916a19e426fd6885e14036d64156f4b6f6aca1d22a1b9307de8d46e8d3'
path src_filepath
backup false
end
but I continue to get this error:
Recipe: nginx::source
* yum_package[pcre-devel] action install (up to date)
* yum_package[openssl-devel] action install (up to date)
* remote_file[http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz] action create
================================================================================
Error executing action `create` on resource 'remote_file[http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz]'
================================================================================
Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch
----------------------------------
Checksum on resource (ed744d) does not match checksum on content (7c989a)
Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In /opt/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb
58: remote_file nginx_url do
59: source nginx_url
60: checksum 'ed744d916a19e426fd6885e14036d64156f4b6f6aca1d22a1b9307de8d46e8d3'
61: path src_filepath
62: backup false
63: end
64:
Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in /opt/chef/cookbooks/nginx/recipes/source.rb:58:in `from_file'
remote_file("http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz") do
provider Chef::Provider::RemoteFile
action [:create]
retries 0
retry_delay 2
default_guard_interpreter :default
source ["http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz"]
use_etag true
use_last_modified true
declared_type :remote_file
cookbook_name :nginx
recipe_name "source"
checksum "ed744d916a19e426fd6885e14036d64156f4b6f6aca1d22a1b9307de8d46e8d3"
path "/var/chef/cache/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz"
atomic_update true
end
Running handlers:
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
Running handlers complete
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 5 resources updated in 19 seconds
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] ERROR: remote_file[http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.4.tar.gz] (nginx::source line 58) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch: Checksum on resource (ed744d) does not match checksum on content (7c989a)
[2016-02-16T15:40:44+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
Does anyone have any advice?
I am running this inside of vagrant, on my local machine (a Mac).

Answer 1

It sounds like this was resolved in comments above, but for the record you need to make sure the checksum exactly the file being downloaded. This can be confusing in cases with gzip compression.

Answer 2

Run sha256sum command against the file and use the output as checksum. Seems like you're using md5 or sha1 hash algorithm as checksum