Re: More problems with remote_file

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

Jeppe, can you try this with 0.7.0?

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On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <jeppe@ingolfs.dk>  
wrote:

> 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