[chef-dev] Re: Fwd: Open source server upgrade from 0.10.6 to 10.16.2

[Jeff Thompson < >]

Hi Daniel,

That's the problem, there was nothing in the logs (although I'm not an expert in such things). I've ended up building a brand new server and I'm in the process of re-bootstrapping my nodes onto the new one. Since my email but before setting up a new server, I tried rerunning the chef-solo run of chef-server::rubygems-install (it's a CentOS server, as per http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo). That's when things went really pear shaped and the chef-server won't even run. Only thing that shows up in /var/log/chef/server.log when I try to start it is:

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Starting Thin at port 4000

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Using Thin adapter on host 0.0.0.0 and port 4000.

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Successfully bound to port 4000

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Changing privileges to chef:chef

But if I immediately run /etc/init.d/chef-server status I get:

chef-server dead but pid file exists

Oh well, new server now, just mustn't let this one die...

Thanks,

Jeff

On 27 November 2012 13:40, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Monday, November 26, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Jeff Thompson wrote:

Hi there,

I've just upgraded our open source Chef server from 0.10.6 to 10.16.2. It's a CentOS 5 server, installed via gems, so I updated the system first (yum update), then gem (gem update --system), then the gems themselves (gem update). After that I restarted the server and now there are some errors on some pages. On the webui, the /roles pages doesn't work, also the same when I do 'knife role list'. I also tried a chef-client run on the server (it's a client of itself), and I get a 500 "Internal Server Error" on the /nodes/chef-server api request.

Does anyone know if I need to update anything else to complete the update? I'm guessing there might be a database schema perhaps that needs updating or something similar.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

Can you share the errors from the server logs?

There aren't any code-level incompatibilities between those versions, so there's probably a misconfiguration or something else going on. 

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