Error starting cassandra in vagrant

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[default] Mounting shared folders...
[default] -- v-root: /vagrant
[default] -- v-csc-1: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks
[default] Running provisioner: Vagrant::Provisioners::ChefSolo...
[default] Generating chef JSON and uploading...
[default] Running chef-solo...
stdin: is not a tty
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:51 -0700] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.2 ***
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[cassandra::default]"] from JSON
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] INFO: Run List is [recipe[cassandra::default]]
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] INFO: Run List expands to [cassandra::default]
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] INFO: Starting Chef Run for lucid32
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-stacktrace.out
[Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0700] FATAL: SyntaxError: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/metachef/libraries/component.rb:106: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '|'
      define_method(klass.handle) do |name, val=nil, &block|
                                                ^
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/metachef/libraries/component.rb:106: Can't assign to nil
      define_method(klass.handle) do |name, val=nil, &block|
                                                    ^
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/metachef/libraries/component.rb:164: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.