[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bad Request "corruption"

[Landon < >]

>> My version of CouchDB is 0.10.0, the default in Ubuntu 10.4 it
>> appears.  Is anyone else having issues with this version of CouchDB?
>
> I haven't seen this problem before.

Hmmm.  I was afraid that was going to be the general consensus.  I am
loathe to upgrade CouchDB since I am guessing most people run Chef
just fine on 0.10.0...

>
>>> The invalid JSON is 200KB large!!  Is this normal?  It appears that
>>> OHAI on windows is posting LARGE amounts of data.  I have attached the
>>> whole error line here but it seems like there is something broken if
>>> OHAI is posting this much data, right?
>
> The general philosophy with ohai is to collect as much info as
> possible, since disk is cheap and by the time you know you need it, it
> could be too late. That said, you can opt out to any plugins you don't
> want by including something like the following in your client.rb:
>
>  Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] << 'darwin::system_profiler' <<
> 'darwin::kernel' << 'darwin::ssh_host_key'
>
> HTH,
> Dan DeLeo

That does help.  Good to know.  I see your point on cheap disk, etc.
And the obvious point is that the request has been large during the
entire development cycle and didn't bomb earlier.  Like I said before,
I am concerned that we are trying to roll out an infrastructure using
Chef but I feel like there is a time-bomb somewhere in the stack
waiting to go off and I can't find the right wire to cut (ok I took
that metaphor too far...)

Thanks to both of you for the help. Really appreciated.

Landon