Vagrant Box Breaking After Knife Cookbook Installs - centos

Question

I'm a Vagrant n00b who's having issues getting Vagrant and Chef's knife command to play nice together as I'm setting up a pretty simple CentOS LAMP box using chef-solo.
Here's a quick rundown of ths issue:
I've created a basic Vagrantfile using the CentOS 6.3 w/ Chef base box on vagrantbox.es. You can see the basics in this gist.
I've downloaded all the cookbooks via knife cookbook site install nameofcookbook using a configuration that puts them in ./chef/cookbooks.
I've successfully run vagrant up to You can see the basics in this gist.
I've tested apache, php, etc. All good.
Now comes the trick: with the VM running, I run knife to add another package (in this case i3).
From here on, Vagrant fails to perform various tasks in the VM:
When I run vagrant provision I get an error like this
The chef binary (either `chef-solo` or `chef-client`) was not found on
the VM and is required for chef provisioning. Please verify that chef
is installed and that the binary is available on the PATH.
When I run vagrant halt I get an error that the ssh command exited with a non-zero error code.
I am able to run vagrant ssh however, and confirm that (a) chef-solo does, in fact, exist in the box and (b) I can shutdown via the commandline in the box.
When I run vagrant up I get an error like this:
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!
mkdir -p /vagrant</li>
I'm stumped. I've had this happen on two boxes already, and I know that Knife and Vagrant should be able to play well together.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help much appreciated, I've very excited about digging into Vagrant!

Answer 1

chef.add_recipe "sudo"
Nuked your sudo file after the first run.
Add the appropriate json to your vagrant file for your vagrant user.
Something like:
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
# add your recipes
# chef.add_recipe "foo"
# chef.add_role "bar"
chef.json = {
"authorization" => {
"sudo" => {
"users" => [ "vagrant" ],
"passwordless" => true,
}
}
}
end