chef solo run failure

# chef solo failure.
# notes:
#   - this machine does not have a 'domain' assigned by ohai (hostname -f has no dots in it)
#   - ubuntu 9.04, fresh installation

# sudo chef-solo -c ~/solo.rb -j ~/bootstrap.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz
[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:05:17 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Solo Run
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb:372:in `method_missing': Attribute domain is not defined! (ArgumentError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node.rb:236:in `send'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node.rb:236:in `method_missing'
	from /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef/attributes/server.rb:33:in `from_file'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:73:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/compile.rb:68:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:117:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:116:in `each_value'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:116:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/compile.rb:67:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/client.rb:376:in `converge'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/client.rb:103:in `run_solo'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:191:in `run_application'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:183:in `loop'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:183:in `run_application'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application.rb:57:in `run'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/bin/chef-solo:26
	from /usr/bin/chef-solo:19:in `load'
	from /usr/bin/chef-solo:19

gistfile2.txt

~# cat bootstrap.json 
{ "chef": { "server_fqdn": "chef.example.com" }, "recipes": "chef::client" }

similar behavior when running chef-client

# /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/chef/attributes/server.rb is a slightly modified version of the one from the s3 bundle.
# the salient bit where the error happens is the same:
# server.rb:33:    chef[:server_fqdn]     = "#{chef[:server_hostname]}.#{domain}" unless chef.has_key?(:server_fqdn)


# chef-client --server https://chef.doloreslabs.com -j bootstrap.json 
[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:14:36 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb:372:in `method_missing': Attribute domain is not defined! (ArgumentError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node.rb:236:in `send'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/node.rb:236:in `method_missing'
	from /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/chef/attributes/server.rb:33:in `from_file'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:73:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/compile.rb:68:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:117:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:116:in `each_value'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:116:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/compile.rb:67:in `load_attributes'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/client.rb:376:in `converge'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/client.rb:82:in `run'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:186:in `run_application'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:178:in `loop'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application/client.rb:178:in `run_application'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/lib/chef/application.rb:57:in `run'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.8/bin/chef-client:26
	from /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
	from /usr/bin/chef-client:19