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

["Leinartas, Michael" < >]

Yup, worked for me though i did it by changing the 'bash -c' to 'bash -lc'
to make it a login shell.

Thanks, this has made me happy.


> From: "John E. Vincent (lusis)" 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:08:25 -0600
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> Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Error during bootstrap
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> 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 ;)
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Sean OMeara 
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>> probably. You'll be glad to know it works fine on fedora/rhel6.
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>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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>>> 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.
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>>> I added:
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>>> 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?
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>>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Sean OMeara 
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>>>> what centos5 ami are you using?
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>  ~]# groupadd -g 504 testgroup
>>>>> -bash: groupadd: command not found
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>>>>>  ~]# 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.
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>>>>> Can't tell at this point if it's a bug with Chef or with
>>>>> net-ssh-multi. Still investigating.
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>> -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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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 
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>>>>>>>> finishing up my AMIs but has anyone seen anything like this when
>>>>>>>> creating users as part of the base role at bootstrap?
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>>>>>>>> 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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