[chef] knife search ... always fails with a Server Error

[Steve Webb < >]

Hey there.  Chef newbie here.  I've installed chef-server and I have 
gotten many things working, but I'm unable to do a search from the 
client-side using knife as mentioned in the docs.


 
 ~]# chef-solo --version
Chef: 0.9.12
Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife --version
Chef: 0.10.0

Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife node list
  cacti-server.gnip.com
  chefserver-test1

Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife search node "*:*"
ERROR: Server returned error for 
http://chefserver-test1.gnip.com:4000/search/node?q=*%253A*&sort=&start=0&rows=20, 
retrying 1/5 in 3s
ERROR: Server returned error for 
http://chefserver-test1.gnip.com:4000/search/node?q=*%253A*&sort=&start=0&rows=20, 
retrying 2/5 in 8s


I can do searches from the chef-gui and it seems to work.  I can re-index 
and that seems to work:

Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife index rebuild -y
Chef::ApiClient:  success
Chef::DataBag:    success
Chef::Node:       success
Chef::Role:       success

solr is running:


 
 ~]# ps auxw | grep solr
root     17007  3.3  1.3  31380 24468 pts/1    Sl   17:02   0:48 
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby 
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/chef-solr-indexer
root     17215  0.0  0.0   1848   508 pts/1    R+   17:25   0:00 grep solr
root     18848  0.0 11.6 420088 203236 ?       Sl   May03   0:19 java 
-Xmx256M -Xms256M -Dsolr.data.dir=/var/chef/solr/data 
-Dsolr.solr.home=/var/chef/solr -jar /var/chef/solr-jetty/start.jar

However, I'm not using a solr.conf file, so it's using the defaults for 
solr.

Any ideas what's wrong with my 'knife search ...' command?

Thanks in advance.

- Steve Webb

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Steve Webb - Senior System Administrator for gnip.com