[chef-dev] Re: exceptions when installing chef server

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM, xinhui 
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 >
 wrote:
> I am trying to install chef server by two ways but met different problems
> respectively, please help share experience of success:
>
> (1) Installing Chef Server on Debian or Ubuntu using Packages
> Exception met:
> get iniative error when execute "apt-get install chef chef-server-api ", no
> chef-client gem found.

Can you provide the full error message? It is hard to tell what is
happening without the context of what is happening before and after
the error.

> (2) Installing Chef Server on Debian or Ubuntu using chef-solo
> Finished each step shown on this page. Found no webui.pem under /etc/chef/ 
> and
> no Chef Server WebUI get up.

What does your chef.json from this installation look like? The
instructions provide two examples, one that includes the Webui and one
that does not.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo#InstallingChefServerusingChefSolo-ConfigureChefsolo

> I did not config apache proxy for ssl, is it necessary?

No. The WebUI will run on port 4040 by default on its own, regardless
of a proxy pointing to it.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:44 AM,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> Message shown followed by chef-server
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:14: uninitialized constant 
> Gem::UserInteraction (NameError)
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `require'
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:4
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `require'
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/provider/package/rubygems.rb:31
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `require'
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/providers.rb:59
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `require'
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef.rb:25
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `gem_original_require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 
> `require'
>        from /usr/sbin/chef-server:39

Is this on the system installed from apt or gem?

What version of Rubygems is installed?

Run "gem -v" and "gem list chef*" and "dpkg -l rubygems"

Bryan