[chef] Re: chef-client runs only locally as root

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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Hello!

That error looks like one I ran into where 'ruby' wasn't in the $PATH,  
though 'ruby1.8' was. Are you on a system like Debian that has  
separate ruby1.8 and ruby packages, and 'ruby' isn't installed?


On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Gilles Devaux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to execute chef-client remotely but I run into this  
> exception:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/system.rb: 
> 121:in `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/ 
> system.rb:121:in `all_plugins'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/ 
> system.rb:118:in `each'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.5.0/lib/ohai/ 
> system.rb:118:in `all_plugins'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/client.rb:121:in `run_ohai'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/client.rb:126:in `determine_node_name'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/client.rb:83:in `run'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/application/client.rb:204:in `run_application'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/application/client.rb:196:in `loop'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/application/client.rb:196:in `run_application'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/../lib/ 
> chef/application.rb:57:in `run'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.6/bin/chef- 
> client:26
>        from /usr/local/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
>        from /usr/local/bin/chef-client:19
>
> Here is the debug log
>
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Loading plugin kernel
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -s STDOUT  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Linux
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -s STDOUT ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -s STDERR  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -s STDERR ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -s) returned 0
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -r STDOUT  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: 2.6.32.1-rscloud
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -r STDOUT ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -r STDERR  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -r STDERR ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -r) returned 0
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -v STDOUT  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: #15 SMP Mon Feb 22 13:22:15  
> UTC 2010
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -v STDOUT ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -v STDERR  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -v STDERR ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -v) returned 0
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -m STDOUT  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: x86_64
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -m STDOUT ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- Begin uname -m STDERR  
> ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG:
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: ---- End uname -m STDERR ----
> [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000] DEBUG: Ran  (uname -m) returned 0
>
> I am having the same exception when:
> - I invoke sudo chef-client from a non-root user (this is the same  
> use case as trying remotely with ssh 'sudo chef-client'
> - the chef-client deamon runs every 30 minutes -> the deamon runs as  
> root:root: (root      1218  0.0  0.9  92588 19360 ?        S     
> Mar10   0:00 /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/chef-client -d -c /etc/ 
> chef/client.rb -i 1800 -s 20 -L /var/log/chef/client.log)
>
> only running chef-client as root locally works.
>
> I have the same $PATH in both cases:
> - running as root
> - running as sudo (I have included /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin)
>
> Any help appreciated at this point
>
> Thanks
>
> --Gilles

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