Issues

• ec2 plugin: add retries / more resilient fetch for individual IMDS metadata keys

  Status: Untriaged
  chef/ohai#1946 · Filter by author gmarciani opened on Apr 29, 2026
  1

• hostnamectl output now includes icons

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1908 · Filter by author nvwls opened on Dec 26, 2025
  1

• ohai crashes docker engine when run in an amd64 container on an m4 mac with rosetta acceleration enabled

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1889 · Filter by author dschlenk opened on Oct 1, 2025

• Getting ERROR: shard_seed: Failed to get dmi property serial_number: is dmidecode installed?

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1839 · Filter by author TharunKaramTR opened on Sep 13, 2024

• ip6address not detected correctly on FreeBSD

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1835 · Filter by author feld opened on Sep 2, 2024
  4

• [17.9.0] EC2 metadata missing network-card information

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1795 · Filter by author gmarciani opened on Apr 12, 2023

• Incorrect/truncated CPU flags returned with later Linux kernels

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1791 · Filter by author comay opened on Mar 13, 2023

• Another instance of possible incorrect class comparison

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1790 · Filter by author comay opened on Mar 12, 2023

• [BUG] Ohai passwd - segmentation fault at 0x0000000000000000

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1773 · Filter by author fibd opened on Oct 28, 2022
  1

• node['cloud'] = nil in AWS environment where full tunnel VPN is enabled

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1767 · Filter by author gbatye opened on Aug 31, 2022

• fetching metadata on VMs with pre-defined user-data of Alibaba Cloud causing a never-end recursion, maybe other Cloud Service Providers are affected too

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1765 · Filter by author ETiV opened on Aug 10, 2022
  1

• Network Plugin intermittently unable to detect ipaddress

  chef/ohai#1764 · Filter by author oadeoye-cisco opened on Aug 10, 2022

• Metadata tags with spaces cause ohai ec2 to return an empty response

  chef/ohai#1763 · Filter by author krayzie32 opened on Aug 9, 2022

• Custom Ohai plugin not functioning properly after Chef 17 upgrade.

  chef/ohai#1762 · Filter by author JaBurd opened on Aug 1, 2022

• fips plugin does not detect host fips mode properly

  Type: Bug
  chef/ohai#1745 · Filter by author jblaine opened on Apr 8, 2022
  4

• Ohai simultaneously detects EC2 and Azure clouds

  Type: Bug
  chef/ohai#1743 · Filter by author thheinen opened on Mar 29, 2022

• Darwin Hardware: Imparity between Intel and ARM/M1 (Apple Silicon) Apple devices

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1734 · Filter by author ChefAustin opened on Feb 17, 2022
  3

• Request: windows_updates plugin (code in description)

  Status: Untriaged
  chef/ohai#1706 · Filter by author chef-davin opened on Oct 31, 2021
  1

• Report Windows Features to Chef Server

  Status: UntriagedType: Design Proposal
  chef/ohai#1689 · Filter by author johnmccrae opened on Aug 18, 2021

• Add chocolatey package information detection

  Status: Untriaged
  chef/ohai#1685 · Filter by author tas50 opened on Aug 3, 2021
  1

• Ohai always detects the embedded Ruby in the languages plugin since Chef 16

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1684 · Filter by author ziggythehamster opened on Jul 31, 2021
  1

• AWS EC2 ohai plugin replaces - with _ in metadata keys

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1673 · Filter by author cavdhut opened on Jun 25, 2021
  1

• "unable to detect ipaddress" when running in Windows Docker container

  Status: UntriagedType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1667 · Filter by author ghost opened on May 19, 2021

• which with remote Ohai doesn't seem to work as expected

  Focus: Target ModeType: Bug
  chef/ohai#1665 · Filter by author tas50 opened on May 11, 2021

• Parse /etc/debian_version to get the full Debian version string

  chef/ohai#1649 · Filter by author eheydrick opened on Apr 9, 2021
  2