[chef] Re: Upgrade caused chef client to stop

[Ash Berlin < >]

On 11 Mar 2011, at 09:29, Ash Berlin wrote:
> So last night all my chef clients seem to finally pick up the upgrade to 
> chef 0.9.14 (I guess this is when .14 got pushed to the opscode apt repo 
> which i'm using)
> 
> Sadly they didn't upgrade cleanly:
> 
> [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:32:28 +0000] INFO: Upgrading package[chef] version 
> from 0.9.12+dfsg-2 to 0.9.14+dfsg-1
> [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:32:30 +0000] FATAL: SIGTERM received, stopping
> [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:32:30 +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
> [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:32:30 +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
> 
> Thats it - after that point chef stopped running.
> 
> 1) Why?
> 2) How do i stop it from happening again? ;)
> 
> -ash

I just noticed that apt-get update was failing with this error:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to 
correct the problem. 

Which might implies it aborted part way through the update process when it 
SIGTERMed the old process.

How should I be upgrading chef using chef?

-ash