Error when running monit recipe from cookbooks folder

dump from ey-local up

[default] [Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:31:31 +0000] INFO: Ran execute[cleanup-backup-inittab] successfully
[Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:31:31 +0000] INFO: Chef Run complete in 131.255645 seconds
[default] ln:
[default] creating symbolic link `/etc/chef-custom/recipes/cookbooks/cookbooks'
[default] : Read-only file system
[default] 
[default] [Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:31:31 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Solo Run
[default] /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/node.rb:180:in `method_missing'
[default] :
[default] Attribute default is not defined!
[default] (
[default] ArgumentError
[default] )
[default] from /etc/chef-custom/recipes/cookbooks/monit/attributes/default.rb:1:in `from_file'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:73:in `load_attributes'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `each'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook.rb:71:in `load_attributes'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/compile.rb:61:in `load_attributes'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:107:in `each'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:106:in `each_value'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/cookbook_loader.rb:106:in `each'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/compile.rb:60:in `load_attributes'
[default] from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/client.rb:342:in `converge'
  from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/lib/chef/client.rb:96:in `run_solo'
	from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.6.0.2/bin/chef-solo:94
	from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/bin/chef-solo:19:in `load'
	from /usr/local/ey_resin/ruby/bin/chef-solo:19
[ey-local] The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
ey-local assumes that this means the command failed!

source /etc/profile.d/*;
export RVM_RUBY=`rvm list | grep "^   " | awk '{ print $1 }' | tail -1`;
rvm use $RVM_RUBY > /dev/null;
if [[ ! -d /etc/chef/recipes ]]; then curl -s http://ey-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com/chef-ey-1.1.340.tgz > /tmp/chef.tar.gz; sudo mkdir -p /etc/chef/recipes && cd /etc/chef/recipes && sudo tar -xzf /tmp/chef.tar.gz; sudo patch -p1 < /tmp/eylocal_patches/* >& /dev/null; sudo touch /etc/chef/ey_local_cookbook_version; sudo chown ey-local /etc/chef/ey_local_cookbook_version; echo "1.1.340" > /etc/chef/ey_local_cookbook_version; rm /tmp/chef.tar.gz; fi;
cd /etc/chef;
sudo env PATH=/usr/local/ey_resin/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin chef-solo -j /etc/chef/dna.json -c /etc/chef/solo.rb;
if [[ ! -e /usr/bin/rake ]]; then sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rake19 /usr/bin/rake; fi;
if [[ ! -d /etc/chef-custom/recipes ]]; then sudo mkdir -p /etc/chef-custom/recipes; fi;
if [[ -d /vagrant/cookbooks ]]; then sudo ln -sF /vagrant/cookbooks /etc/chef-custom/recipes/cookbooks; fi;
echo 'cookbook_path     "/etc/chef-custom/recipes/cookbooks"
log_level         :info
file_store_path  "/etc/chef-custom/recipes/"
file_cache_path  "/etc/chef-custom/recipes/"
node_name         "localhost"' > /tmp/_solo.rb;
sudo mv -f /tmp/_solo.rb /etc/chef-custom/solo.rb;
sudo env PATH=/usr/local/ey_resin/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin chef-solo -j /etc/chef/dna.json -c /etc/chef-custom/solo.rb;