Re: More problems with remote_file

[Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <jeppe@ingolfs.dk>]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen<jeppe@ingolfs.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen<jeppe@ingolfs.dk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem to occasionally get some errors with remote_file when running
>> chef-solo. It is not consistently reproducible, but seems to occur when I
>> rerun a chef-solo command and the target file already exists.
>
> Hmm seems to be a platform thing. On an EC2 instance running Ubuntu
> 8.04, I cannot reproduce this. On an EC2 instance running 9.04 I can
> consistently reproduce this....
>
> /Jeppe
>

And just to keep the dialogue with myself:  I'm pretty sure it's
caused by Ruby 1.8.7 which is default on Ubuntu 9.04. Downgrading to
1.8.6 solves the problem.

The strange part is that it only happens on some files. I've created a
very small test scenario which consistently fails on 9.04 after the
first successful run. After downgrading to Ruby 1.8.6, I can run this
scenario several times without failure:

1) Create solo.rb
cookbook_path    "/etc/chef/recipes/cookbooks"
log_level        :debug
file_store_path  "/var/chef/files/"
file_cache_path  "/etc/chef/recipes"

2) gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc --bindir /sbin ohai chef --source
http://gems.opscode.com --source http://gems.rubyforge.org
3) chef-solo -c solo.rb -j http://jnmtest.s3.amazonaws.com/dna.json -l
debug -r http://jnmtest.s3.amazonaws.com/cookbooks.tgz
4) chef-solo -c solo.rb -j http://jnmtest.s3.amazonaws.com/dna.json -l
debug -r http://jnmtest.s3.amazonaws.com/cookbooks.tgz

The last step always fails for the last file when running on 9.04 with
Ruby 1.8.7 but works with Ruby 1.8.6

/Jeppe