gistfile1.txt

Knife search works:

precursor:chef-repo cwj$ knife search node "run_list:role\[es_manager\]" | egrep fqdn
        "fqdn": "master.drp.es.bluecoat.com",
        "server_fqdn": "chef.drp.es.bluecoat.com",


search in recipe does not: 

search(:node, "run_list:role\[es_manager\]") do |manager|
  if manager[:fqdn].empty?
    log "Could not find a local apt-cacher-ng proxy"
    proxy = nil
  else
    log "Found local apt-cacher-ng on #{manager[:fqdn]}, will use this node as an http proxy for pbuilder."
    proxy = manager[:fdqn]
  end
end

yields:

WARN: HTTP Request Returned 500 Internal Server Error: 400 "org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse 'run_list:role[es_manager]': Encountered \" \"]\" \"] \"\" at line 1, column 24. Was expecting one of:     \"TO\" ...     <RANGEIN_QUOTED> ...     <RANGEIN_GOOP> ...     "
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2101:in `error!': 500 "Internal Server Error" (Net::HTTPFatalError)

I found this from googling for solutions to the same problem. You get anywhere on figuring this out?