I seen this error while i was working with multiple recipies with in a single cookbook, guess this post will help you if you are hitting the same issue.  Take a look at this error

ubuntu@webserver:~$ sudo chef-client
Starting Chef Client, version 11.8.2
resolving cookbooks for run list: [“web”, “web_v2”]

================================================================================
Error Resolving Cookbooks for Run List:
================================================================================


Missing Cookbooks:
------------------
The following cookbooks are required by the client but don't exist on the server:
* web_v2




Expanded Run List:
------------------
* web
* web_v2


[2015-05-20T20:27:19+05:30] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2015-05-20T20:27:19+05:30] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2015-05-20T20:27:19+05:30] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated
[2015-05-20T20:27:19+05:30] ERROR: 412 "Precondition Failed"
[2015-05-20T20:27:19+05:30] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

this says cookbook is not found for this recipe,  but i added new recipe "web_v2" to nodes runlist, as below 
ubuntu@webserver~$ knife node edit web-server
{
  "name": “web-server”,
  "chef_environment": "_default",
  "normal": {
    
  },
  "run_list": [
  "recipe[web]”,
  "recipe[web_v2]”
]

}

i added my second recipe entry just like above then why the hell it was throwing error, saying "cookbook doesn't exists"

reason is ...

First recipe web is a default recipe of a cookbook web,  which is called as default recipe. If you explicitly don't mention cookbook name in runlist , chef tries to find out cookbook with the name of recipe that's why it was working.

coming to second recipe which is not a default one, chef couldn't make it out because there is no cookbook with the name "web_v2", so here you have to explicitly mention to which cookbook this recipe belongs to ....

finally i found the cause and modified my node's runst as below  

ubuntu@webserver~$ knife node edit web-server
{
  "name": “web-server”,
  "chef_environment": "_default",
  "normal": {
    
  },
  "run_list": [
  "recipe[web]”,
  "recipe[web::web_v2]”
]

}

now it works perfectly....  you want to see chef-client output ??  compare the below output with output in the beginning of the post to find where the error is.

ubuntu@webserver:~$ sudo chef-client
Starting Chef Client, version 11.8.2
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["web", "web::web_v2"]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:
  - web
Compiling Cookbooks...

compare the line "resolving cookbooks for run lists" before and after editing runlist.
before modifying node

resolving cookbooks for run list: ["web", "web_v2"]

after modifying , where it's working.

resolving cookbooks for run list: ["web", "web::web_v2"]
difference is non default recipe has cookbook name as prefix (web::web_v2)
gil ...