[chef] Re: Re: Re: Error during bootstrap

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

I just realized that same return code is something I've seen in Nagios
before too when executing plugins. In fact, it's a similar MO - runs
fine from an interactive session but doesn't from an automated
session.

It's generally something to do with the environment that the script is
running under or a permissions error.

And I think I found it:


 
 ~]# export PATH=/usr/bin

 
 ~]# groupadd -g 504 testgroup
-bash: groupadd: command not found

 
 ~]# echo $?
127

It looks like chef-client isn't importing the path environment
variables. Maybe it should be calling groupadd with the full path?
This is on a CentOS ec2 bootstrap.

Can't tell at this point if it's a bug with Chef or with
net-ssh-multi. Still investigating.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Sean OMeara 
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> your error is on line 35:
> ec2-184-73-57-106.compute-1.amazonaws.com groupadd -g '504' auser
> returned 127, expected 0
>
> -s
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Leinartas, Michael
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>> Yes! and it's been driving me crazy!
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>> I've never been able to reproduce by logging on to the server and it occurs
>> even when I execute chef-client twice, though when i at the end of my
>> bootstrap do a /etc/init.d/chef-client start everything works normally.
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>> I haven't gone too far in investigating because the bootstrap still ends up
>> working with the init.d start of chef-client but I may look again tonight
>> now that I know someone else is experiencing it.
>>
>>
>>> From: "John E. Vincent (lusis)" 
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>>> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:15:35 -0600
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>>> Subject: [chef] Error during bootstrap
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>>> I've not had much time to really investigate this error since I'm just
>>> finishing up my AMIs but has anyone seen anything like this when
>>> creating users as part of the base role at bootstrap?
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/734009
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>>> If I log in immediately after and run chef-client, everything works
>>> fine. It only happens at bootstrap as part of the base role I created.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> John E. Vincent
>>> http://about.me/lusis
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