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

[Sean OMeara < >]

what centos5 ami are you using?

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:01 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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> 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.
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> And I think I found it:
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> 
 
>  ~]# 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
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Leinartas, Michael
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>>  wrote:
>>> Yes! and it's been driving me crazy!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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