Vagrant provisioning fails: Cookbook vagrant not found

Question

When executing vagrant reload --provision it fails during executing chef_solo. This happend all of a sudden with two different boxes on multiple machines running on OSX. Google didn't show up anything and there seems no vagrant-berkshelf plugin being installed.

Output in the console while provisioning:

==> default: Running provisioner: chef_solo...
==> default: Detected Chef (latest) is already installed Generating chef JSON and uploading...
==> default: Running chef-solo...
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:55+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:55+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.6.0 ***
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[vagrant]"] from JSON
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[vagrant]]
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [vagrant]
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for example.lo
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
==> default: [2015-03-04T08:28:58+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

Content of inside the box /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out:

Generated at 2015-03-04 08:28:58 +0000
Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound: Cookbook vagrant not found. If you're loading vagrant from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook/cookbook_collection.rb:38:in `block in initialize'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.18.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:in `yield'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.18.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:in `default'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-6.18.0/lib/ohai/mash.rb:77:in `default'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:265:in `[]'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:265:in `each_cookbook_dep'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:243:in `add_cookbook_with_deps'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:87:in `block in cookbook_order'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:85:in `each'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:85:in `cookbook_order'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:97:in `compile_libraries'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context/cookbook_compiler.rb:70:in `compile'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/run_context.rb:86:in `load'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/client.rb:249:in `setup_run_context'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/client.rb:492:in `do_run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/client.rb:199:in `block in run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/client.rb:193:in `fork'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/client.rb:193:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/application.rb:183:in `run_chef_client'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:239:in `block in run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:in `loop'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:231:in `run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/application.rb:66:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.6.0/bin/chef-solo:25:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `<main>'

Answer 1

Turns out it is a bug with Vagrant 1.7.2, downgrading to 1.6.5 seems to solve the problem on all affected machines.