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

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From: "Bryan McLellan" < >
To: "xinhui" < >
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:41:50 AM
Subject: Re: [chef-dev] exceptions when installing chef server
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM, xinhui < > 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 ishappening without the context of what is happening before and after
the error.

I just deployed again in a new box from client solo and got the attached error log with execution of "chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz "

(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 use the second one with WebUI.

 

 

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?

From apt.

What version of Rubygems is installed?
Run "gem -v" and "gem list chef*" and "dpkg -l rubygems"

I got below output:
:~# gem -v
1.8.10
:~# dpkg -l rubygems
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  rubygems       <none>         (no description available)
Bryan

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