App Packager - Exception: , Value: list index out of range

[MikeElliott]

Hi Team,

I'm attempting to package an app for an internal deployment.

I run the below command:

./splunk package app /Applications/Splunk/etc/apps/<my_app_name>/

I am then met with the below error:

An unforeseen error occurred:

    Exception: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>, Value: list index out of range

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1145, in main
    parseAndRun(argsList)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 943, in parseAndRun
    retVal = makeRestCall(cmd=command, obj=subCmd, restArgList=objUnicode(argList), sessionKey=authInfo, timeout=timeout)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rcUtils.py", line 666, in makeRestCall
    DISPLAY_CHARS[endpoint](cmd=cmd, obj=obj, type=etype, serverResponse=serverResponse, serverContent=serverContent, sessionKey=sessionKey, eaiArgsList=eaiArgsList)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rcDisplay.py", line 187, in wrapper
    return f(**kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rcDisplay.py", line 165, in wrapper
    return f(**kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rcDisplay.py", line 706, in displayApp
    d = nodeToPrimitive(atomFeed[0].rawcontents)
  File "/Applications/Splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rest/format.py", line 382, in __getitem__
    return self.entries.__getitem__(idx)
IndexError: list index out of range


Please file a case online at http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue

This is a particularly enraging issue, as this worked perfectly fine yesterday, stopped working today and still does not work after a fresh install of Splunk Enterprise in my Dev environment.

Any suggestions?

[MikeElliott · Accepted solution]

I got this to work by doing the following:

/Applications/Splunk/bin/splunk package app <my_app_name>/

I would, however, still like to invite comment. I'd like to know what I was doing wrong so that I can avoid it in the future and not come up with solutions by rage-bashing XD

[cduffey_splunk]

This didn't work for me, but I was able to get the following to work:

cd to SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps

SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk package app