knife bootstrap failure

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$ knife bootstrap xwagsa03 -x root -N "xwagsa03" --bootstrap-proxy http://172.28.97.24:8080

xwagsa03 Starting Chef Client, version 11.16.4
xwagsa03 resolving cookbooks for run list: []
xwagsa03 Synchronizing Cookbooks:
xwagsa03 Compiling Cookbooks...
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] WARN: Node xwagsa03 has an empty run list.
xwagsa03 Converging 0 resources
xwagsa03
xwagsa03 Running handlers:
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
xwagsa03 Running handlers complete
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
xwagsa03 Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 3.937199224 seconds
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] ERROR: 403 "Forbidden"
xwagsa03 [2014-12-11T18:52:19-06:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)