Re: chef-client doesn't work "automatically"

[Arjuna Christensen <aj@opscode.com>]

On 17/06/2009, at 7:41 PM, Albert Llop wrote:

I've been having some trouble with my chef-clients, I've my chef-server working properly, and my chef-clients can work just fine (with 0.7). I can login, and execute chef-client as root and it will work wonderfully.

But after that it just doesn't work. In the log you see this every 30mins:

[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:15:09 +0200] INFO: Starting Chef Run
[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:15:09 +0200] ERROR: Net::HTTPFatalError
[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:15:09 +0200] FATAL: 502 "Bad Gateway"
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2097:in `error!'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/rest.rb:232:in `run_request'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/rest.rb:230:in `run_request'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/rest.rb:95:in `post_rest'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/client.rb:223:in `authenticate'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/client.rb:74:in `run'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/application/client.rb:163:in `run_application'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/application/client.rb:161:in `loop'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/application/client.rb:161:in `run_application'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/lib/chef/application.rb:53:in `run'
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090610/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.0/bin/chef-client:26
/usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-client:19
[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:15:09 +0200] FATAL: Sleeping for 1815 seconds before trying again

Could you possibly set your log_level to debug on both the client and the server, and drop another email back with the increased log verbosity?

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AJ Christensen, Software Engineer

Opscode, Inc.
E: aj@opscode.com