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

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

Well that's good to know allthough I won't be running with 6 until
CentOS catches up. Either way, the bootstrap template is for version 5
so I added the export line and made a pull request ;)

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Sean OMeara 
<
 >
 wrote:
> probably. You'll be glad to know it works fine on fedora/rhel6.
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> It's a custom one that's been really stripped down and the
>> centos5-gems bootstrap template. I just did another test after
>> modifying the template and was able to fix it.
>>
>> I added:
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin on the line before the bootstrap
>> chef-client call. This is one of those Redhat-isms. /sbin/ and
>> /usr/sbin are NOT in the system-wide path by default. They're only
>> available to root so it feels like the issue is that the login scripts
>> are being ignored by net-ssh-multi possibly because it's not running
>> with a tty?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Sean OMeara 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>>> what centos5 ami are you using?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:01 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
>>> <
 >
>>>  wrote:
>>>> 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 
>>>> <
 >
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>> <
 >
>>>>>  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)" 
>>>>>>> <
 >
>>>>>>> Reply-To: 
>>>>>>> "
 "
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> <
 >
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:15:35 -0600
>>>>>>> To: 
>>>>>>> "
 "
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> <
 >
>>>>>>> Subject: [chef] Error during bootstrap
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>