ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found

[valachi]

root@Ubuntu-1204-precise-64-minimal:/chef-repo/cookbooks# knife cookbook github install fnichol/chef-rvm/v0.9.0
Installing rvm from git://github.com/fnichol/chef-rvm.git to /root/chef-repo/.chef/../cookbooks
Checking out the master branch.
Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-rvm) exists, switching to it.
Removing pre-existing version.
ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
Response: Not Found
root@Ubuntu-1204-precise-64-minimal:/chef-repo/cookbooks# ls
getting-started install_rvm_with_ruby_stable README.md rvm testuser

cookbooks anyway got installed, though

[SpoBo]

+1 same issue here. OS X 10.8.

➽ knife -v
Chef: 0.10.10

➽ git --version
git version 1.7.8.3

knife-github-cookbooks (0.1.5)

[cmsd2]

could be related to github deprecating their v2 api.

this fork seems to have the fix, and also seems to be the one i get when i "gem install ..."

https://github.com/nphase/knife-github-cookbooks

[wmaradey]

Same error happened to me.

knife cookbook download apache2
Downloading apache2 cookbook version 1.7.0
Downloading resources
Downloading providers
Downloading recipes
ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
Response: #<Net::ReadAdapter:0x000000030a1240>

Knife version:

$ knife -v
Chef: 11.6.0