[chef] Re: Re: Re: EC2 AMI with chef-server installed

[John Merrells < >]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Ringo De Smet wrote:

> However, I do want to post the issues I still encountered:
> 
> 1) when running chef-solo, I got this error:
> 
> [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:27 +0200] INFO:
> template[/etc/sv/chef-solr/log/run] sending restart action to
> service[chef-solr] (delayed)
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.10/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:179:in
> `handle_command_failures': /etc/init.d/chef-solr restart returned 1,
> expected 0 (Chef::Exceptions::Exec)
>       from 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.8.10/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:122:in
> `run_command'
> 
> Running "/etc/init.d/chef-solr restart" manually did work, so I
> restarted the chef-solo process. It now ended with success.

I've never seen that one myself. The only thought I have around that
is that I've only been working with totally fresh installs of ubuntu 9.10.

> 2) After that, I did a restart of 2 chef processes to workaround the
> initial login problem:
> 
> /etc/init.d/chef-server restart
> /etc/init.d/chef-server-webui restart
> 
> Login is now possible with the admin password listed in /etc/chef/server.rb.

That's good news that you've narrowed that down.

John

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