Getting " Cannot run program "bash"" while building chef in jenkins - linux

Question

I have installed chef-plugin in jenkins and did the following configurations:
Run chef client on remote host:
enabled: checked
ssh host: "remote host"
ssh login: root
chef_json template: "{
"run-list" :[
"recipe[test]"
]
}"
color output: checked
and got the following error:
Started by user swetha sreeramoju
Building in workspace C:\.jenkins\workspace\chef-sample
[2015-05-27 19:06:44 +0530] INFO: [34m[47mrendering ERB template[0m[0m
[2015-05-27 19:06:44 +0530] INFO: [34m[47mparsing JSON string[0m[0m
[2015-05-27 19:06:44 +0530] INFO: [34m[47msaving JSON to file[0m[0m
[2015-05-27 19:06:44 +0530] INFO: [2m[1m[34m[47m[4mchef json url[0m[0m[0m[0m[0m[34m[47m : http://localhost:8080/jenkins//job/chef-sample/ws/chef.json[0m[0m
[2015-05-27 19:06:44 +0530] INFO: [2m[1m[34m[47m[4mhost[0m[0m[0m[0m[0m[34m[47m : 10.0.12.209[0m[0m
$ bash -c "ssh root#10.0.12.209 sudo chef-client -l info -j http://localhost:8080/jenkins//job/chef-sample/ws/chef.json "
ERROR: Cannot run program "bash": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified (Java::JavaIo::IOException)
java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244)
hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216)
hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:816)
hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:382)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeDirectWithExceptionHandling(JavaMethod.java:440)
org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeDirect(JavaMethod.java:304)
org.jruby.java.invokers.InstanceMethodInvoker.call(InstanceMethodInvoker.java:52)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:134)
org.jruby.ast.CallNoArgNode.interpret(CallNoArgNode.java:64)
org.jruby.ast.CallOneArgNode.interpret(CallOneArgNode.java:57)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.ast.BlockNode.interpret(BlockNode.java:71)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_METHOD(ASTInterpreter.java:75)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:112)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:126)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DefaultMethod.call(DefaultMethod.java:163)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:70)
org.jruby.ast.FCallSpecialArgNode.interpret(FCallSpecialArgNode.java:45)
org.jruby.ast.CallNoArgNode.interpret(CallNoArgNode.java:64)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_METHOD(ASTInterpreter.java:75)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:112)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:126)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DefaultMethod.call(DefaultMethod.java:163)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:70)
org.jruby.ast.CallManyArgsNode.interpret(CallManyArgsNode.java:59)
org.jruby.ast.CallOneArgFixnumNode.interpret(CallOneArgFixnumNode.java:59)
org.jruby.ast.IfNode.interpret(IfNode.java:110)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.ast.BlockNode.interpret(BlockNode.java:71)
org.jruby.ast.IfNode.interpret(IfNode.java:116)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_METHOD(ASTInterpreter.java:75)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:268)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DefaultMethod.call(DefaultMethod.java:220)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:236)
org.jruby.ast.CallThreeArgNode.interpret(CallThreeArgNode.java:61)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_BLOCK(ASTInterpreter.java:112)
org.jruby.runtime.Interpreted19Block.evalBlockBody(Interpreted19Block.java:209)
org.jruby.runtime.Interpreted19Block.yield(Interpreted19Block.java:160)
org.jruby.runtime.Interpreted19Block.yieldSpecific(Interpreted19Block.java:133)
org.jruby.runtime.Block.yieldSpecific(Block.java:99)
org.jruby.ast.ZYieldNode.interpret(ZYieldNode.java:25)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.ast.BlockNode.interpret(BlockNode.java:71)
org.jruby.ast.RescueNode.executeBody(RescueNode.java:224)
org.jruby.ast.RescueNode.interpret(RescueNode.java:119)
org.jruby.ast.BeginNode.interpret(BeginNode.java:83)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_METHOD(ASTInterpreter.java:75)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:204)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DefaultMethod.call(DefaultMethod.java:196)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.callBlock(CachingCallSite.java:177)
org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.callIter(CachingCallSite.java:188)
org.jruby.ast.FCallOneArgBlockNode.interpret(FCallOneArgBlockNode.java:34)
org.jruby.ast.NewlineNode.interpret(NewlineNode.java:105)
org.jruby.evaluator.ASTInterpreter.INTERPRET_METHOD(ASTInterpreter.java:75)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:112)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.InterpretedMethod.call(InterpretedMethod.java:126)
org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DefaultMethod.call(DefaultMethod.java:163)
org.jruby.javasupport.proxy.JavaProxyConstructor$2.invoke(JavaProxyConstructor.java:224)
org.jruby.proxy.hudson.tasks.Builder$Proxy2.perform(Unknown Source)
hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:764)
hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.build(Build.java:205)
hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:162)
hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:537)
hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1744)
hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:374)
Build step 'Run chef client on remote host' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
Chef client and server is running in Linux machine, and jenkins is configured in Windows7.

Answer 1

The problems seems a bit wider as explained here SSH+slaves+and+Cygwin:
This is because Jenkins is trying to call Windows API and execute "/bin/bash" without going through Cygwin path translation. Windows interprets /bin/bash as c:\bin\bash.exe, and unless that path exists, it will fail.
A quick solutions is to pass from a linux node.
Another quick possibility is to make an on-demand Jenkins node out of the Chef-client linux machine (a few clicks) and run there the proper shell line (although it's probably more an hack):
chef-client -l info -j http://localhost:8080/jenkins//job/chef-sample/ws/chef.json

Answer 2

Jenkins client and server is running in Linux machine, and jenkins is configured in Windows7.
That makes no sense.
What's "Jenkins client"? The browser that you used to connect to Jenkins? You can connect through any browser on any OS. It has no affect whatsoever on the execution. The execution happens on master/slave nodes.
"Jenkins [...] server is running in Linux". OK. But then why does your log say Building in workspace C:\.jenkins\workspace\chef-sample. Clearly it is running on Windows node. So either there is a Windows slave node that you are not mentioning, or the Jenkins server is not on Linux but on Windows.
"Jenkins is configured in Windows7". Well, that just continues to add to the confusion. Is Jenkins server running on Windows or Linux, you just said "Linux" in the previous sentence.
Your issue is that you cannot run bash in Jenkins on Windows (and everything points to that being the case here), unless you have a bash equivalent (Cygwin) installed on Windows