[chef] Re: strange behavior in chef-server

[Gilles Devaux < >]

More info for the second issue, using knife I have a better output.

The duplicate ws1 entry is in the 'attribute' section, the correct list is in 
the 'default' section.

It seems the record in the 'attribute' section comes form the node itself. 
Now my new settings are in the override section (appears like this in the 
web-ui too) but the knife output puts them in 'default'.

If the client received them in the 'default' section then this could explain 
my first problem, the templates not being regenerated.

I have been able to change the value in the 'attribute' section or delete 
them from the web-ui. I have also changed the template a bit to force a new 
compilation and it seems that the attributes get duplicated:

passing
> :backends => [
>                        { :name => "ws1", :ip => "IP" },
>                        { :name => "ws2", :ip => "IP2" }
>                      ],


produces
# real servers
        server ws1 IP1 check slowstart 1000
        server ws2 IP2 check slowstart 1000
        server ws1 IP1 check slowstart 1000
        server ws2 IP2 check slowstart 1000

this is my template:
# real servers
<% @node[:haproxy][:backends].each do |backend| -%>
        server <%= backend[:name] %> <%= backend[:ip] %> check slowstart 1000
<%end-%>

I'll continue to investigate, in the meantime if someone think about 
something :)

Thanks

--Gilles

On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Gilles Devaux wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running chef 0.8.4 on both server and client and I see the following 
> behaviors:
> 
> - updating attributes in a role, uploading to the server and launching 
> chef-client does not trigger the templates to be regenerated, only a 
> modification of the 'source' file seems to trigger it.
> 
> - The server seems to send strange arguments:
> 
> override_attributes "haproxy" => { 
>                      :backends => [
>                        { :name => "ws1", :ip => "IP" },
>                        { :name => "ws2", :ip => "IP2" }
>                      ],
>                      :listenip => 'IP'
>                    }
> 
> is passed as:
> "haproxy"=>{"listenip"=>"173.203.240.198", "check"=>"check.txt", 
> "backends"=>[{"name"=>"ws1", "ip"=>"IP1"}, {"name"=>"ws1", "ip"=>"IP1"}]}
> 
> and
> 
> "haproxy"=>{"listenip"=>"173.203.240.198", 
> "backends"=>{"0"=>{"name"=>"ws1", "ip"=>"IP1"}, "1"=>{"name"=>"ws2", 
> "ip"=>"IP2"}}}}
> 
> in another section, I haven't been able to isolate the parent, the dump is 
> too big and I have format errors.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --Gilles
>