[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem with remote_file downloading?

[Ash Berlin < >]

On 8 Sep 2010, at 16:32, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
>> 
>> If i create the directory it works. The bug here is that in attempting to
>> work around one problem in net/http chef has hidden any number of other
>> possible problems.
>> 
> 
> Chef only rescues NoMethodError and only re-raises it as
> Errno::ECONNREFUSED if the error message matches "undefined method
> `closed?' for nil:NilClass"
> 
> http://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/1306d20e7f8fd64b069dbcf213f6230df4c67fae/chef/lib/chef/rest/rest_request.rb#L76-86
> 
> You can see in the original gist that this is actually the error that
> was raised, since the original error is logged to debug. The
> backtrace there also shows that this error was raised from net/http.rb
> line 1060, which is consistent with the net/http bug chef is papering
> over.
> 
> So I'm still quite confused how remote file to a directory that
> doesn't exist could cause this.
> 
> Dan DeLeo

Because net/http did raise a NoMethodError due to @socket being already nil. 
But this was not caused by connection refused - the download succeeded and 
the block ran, and the block then excepted (at some point in that flow I 
guess @socket got closed and nulled).

-ash