[chef] Database cookbook weirdness

[Joshua Jarboe < >]

I'm trying to use the application / database cookbooks to get a mysql db server up.  In and of itself, that should be easy and safe, but I'm using a ubuntu 10.10 / Ruby 1.92 setup as found on this excellent article:

http://napkin.highgroove.com/articles/2011/01/29/ruby-1-9-2-fresh-from-the-oven-or-bootstrap-chef-with-ruby-1-9-2-and-ubuntu-10-10

Everything goes just fine until it doesn't.  When the chef run tries to restart the mysql service, it just stops.  The Chef run doesn't time out.  I'm assuming therefore that whatever command Chef has issued doesn't time out either.

This stuff worked on Ubuntu 10.4 and Ruby 1.87, so it seems likely that changing one (or both) of these is what has resulted in this behavior.  For now, I'm going to try to work around it by getting a Ubuntu 10.4 / Ruby1.92 box up, so I may well answer my own question here.  But I'm interested in what folks have seen in this regard.  Has anyone else seen this before?

~Joshua Jarboe