[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: segfault with CentOS 5.4/5.5 + ruby 1.8.7 + chef 0.10.0

[KC Braunschweig < >]

These issues seem to keep cropping up. I'm wondering if this really
means that its just time to press on to Ruby 1.9.2 and leave 1.8.x
behind. I also noticed when I got my Velocity registration today that
the recommended steps for installing Chef for use in the Chef training
session suggested using Ruby 1.9.2.

Fortunately for me, I don't run Ruby infrastructure for anything other
than Chef so I don't really care much. Just want it to work and
minimize change. Still looking forward to a fatty installer.

KC

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Sergio Rubio 
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> Hey guys,
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Raymond Tham 
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>  wrote:
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>> That's right, we noticed the seg faults happening on our i386 systems; we
>> don't have chef-client set up on any x86_64 instances at the moment.
>
>
> I wonder if you made any progress with this stuff. Been swamped lately, but
> I closely follow they list and RPM related threads. I'll get some fresh air
> soon and I was wondering if testing i386 packages is the best way to help
> here right now.
> Thanks!
>
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this!
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:44 AM, James 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem is in our (aegisco) build of 1.8.7 for i386, which RBEL is
>>> using. We'll work on rebuilding that this weekend. All of your systems are
>>> i386, correct?
>>> Thanks a lot for the report and information!
>>> James
>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Raymond Tham 
>>> <
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>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi James,
>>>> Sorry, I should have mentioned that the AMI (ami-31df8e74) is in US
>>>> West, not East. It should be an S3 backed RightScale AMI.
>>>> I checked /root/.gemrc, and it points
>>>> to http://ec2-us-west-mirror.rightscale.com/rubygems/archive/latest/.
>>>> However, the gems should have been installed through yum through the 
>>>> RBEL5
>>>> i386 repo.
>>>> If it helps, here's the output from "gem list" after installing through
>>>> yum.
>>>> 
 
>>>>  ~]# gem list
>>>> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>>>> abstract (1.0.0)
>>>> activesupport (3.0.3)
>>>> allison (2.0.3)
>>>> bunny (0.6.0)
>>>> chef (0.10.0)
>>>> diff-lcs (1.1.2)
>>>> echoe (4.5.6)
>>>> erubis (2.6.6)
>>>> highline (1.6.1)
>>>> json (1.4.6)
>>>> mime-types (1.16)
>>>> mixlib-authentication (1.1.4)
>>>> mixlib-cli (1.2.0)
>>>> mixlib-config (1.1.2)
>>>> mixlib-log (1.3.0)
>>>> moneta (0.6.0)
>>>> net-sftp (2.0.4)
>>>> net-ssh (2.1.4, 2.0.23)
>>>> net-ssh-gateway (1.0.1)
>>>> net-ssh-multi (1.0.1)
>>>> ohai (0.6.4)
>>>> polyglot (0.3.1)
>>>> rake (0.8.7)
>>>> rake-compiler (0.7.5)
>>>> rest-client (1.6.1)
>>>> rspec (2.5.0)
>>>> rspec-core (2.5.1)
>>>> rspec-expectations (2.5.0)
>>>> rspec-mocks (2.5.0)
>>>> systemu (1.2.0)
>>>> treetop (1.4.9)
>>>> uuidtools (2.1.1)
>>>> xml-simple (1.0.12)
>>>> yajl-ruby (0.8.2)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:31 PM, James 
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>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ray,
>>>>> The ami you gave doesn't seem to be public, but I found one which the
>>>>> same CentOS and RightImage numbers: ami-2342a94a.
>>>>> Can you double-check that it's a public image, so I can make sure to
>>>>> mirror you as closely as possible?
>>>>> Did you also experience
>>>>> this: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2402
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> James
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Raymond Tham 
>>>>> <
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>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi James,
>>>>>> I originally noticed this happening on our older physical servers
>>>>>> running i386 CentOS 5.4 and 5.5, but I just created an EC2 instance 
>>>>>> and was
>>>>>> able to reproduce it. Here's what I did:
>>>>>> 1. Created a small instance using RightScale's 5.4 i386 v.5.5.9 AMI
>>>>>> (ami-31df8e74)
>>>>>> 2. Added RBEL: rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel5
>>>>>> 3. Installed rubygem-chef (excluding EPEL so all the ruby packages are
>>>>>> from RBEL): yum install --disablerepo=epel rubygem-chef
>>>>>> 4. Manually created a /etc/chef/client.rb and copied over
>>>>>> validation.pem.
>>>>>> 5. Ran chef-client for the first time to register the node:
>>>>>> /usr/bin/chef-client
>>>>>> 6. Added recipe[logrotate] to the run list (this is the cookbook from
>>>>>> opscode)
>>>>>> 7. Re-ran chef-client which picked up the recipe and seg faults trying
>>>>>> to run it
>>>>>> With regards to the ruby 1.8.6 that ended up working:
>>>>>> 1. I took Fedora 13's ruby-1.8.6.399-1.fc13.src.rpm, dropped in
>>>>>> 1.8.6.420 and repackaged on CentOS 5.5.
>>>>>> 2. Took Fedora 13's rubygems-1.3.6-1.fc13.src.rpm and repackaged it on
>>>>>> CentOS 5.5 as is (but had to make a minor tweak to one of the patch 
>>>>>> files)
>>>>>> 3. Excluded ruby-*, rubygems-*, and rubygem-chef-0.10* in the RBEL yum
>>>>>> config.
>>>>>> 4. Ran yum install rubygem-chef with my new RPMs.
>>>>>> It pulled my repackaged RPMs (for ruby, ruby-lib, rubygems, and
>>>>>> rubygem-chef) and everything else from RBEL.
>>>>>> With regards to my Chef server (if that helps), it's running Chef 0.10
>>>>>> with all RBEL packages on a custom CentOS 5.6 x86_64 AMI.
>>>>>> Hope that helps!
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ray
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:45 PM, James 
>>>>>> <
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>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ray,
>>>>>>> Can you provide the means to reproduce, specifically: steps to
>>>>>>> install from the RBEL repo, and the AMI / image info? Are these i386
>>>>>>> instances?
>>>>>>> We maintain packages at rpm.aegisco.com, but I'm happy to try to help
>>>>>>> debug the issues you're having. I'm surprised that Ruby 1.8.6 worked, 
>>>>>>> I had
>>>>>>> trouble getting 0.10 to work on anything older than 1.8.7 and rubygems
>>>>>>> 1.6.2.
>>>>>>> James
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:29 PM, 
>>>>>>> <
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>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I noticed a couple of email threads in the past about seg faults and
>>>>>>>> didn't see
>>>>>>>> any resolution so I wanted to share my experience with the same
>>>>>>>> thing happening
>>>>>>>> to us on a few CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 servers (we haven't tested the
>>>>>>>> client on 5.6
>>>>>>>> yet). I'm consistently able to get our chef-client to segfault
>>>>>>>> whenever it
>>>>>>>> handles this package resource (haven't had time to try other
>>>>>>>> packages yet):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:17 -0700] INFO: Processing
>>>>>>>> package[logrotate] action
>>>>>>>> upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:75:
>>>>>>>> [BUG] Segmentation fault
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:27 -0700] INFO: Processing package[logrotate]
>>>>>>>> action
>>>>>>>> upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:64:
>>>>>>>> [BUG] Segmentation fault
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:53 -0700] INFO: Processing
>>>>>>>> package[logrotate] action
>>>>>>>> upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:66:
>>>>>>>> [BUG] Segmentation fault
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We were trying this with ruby 1.8.7 p334 from the FrameOS rbel5 i386
>>>>>>>> repo.
>>>>>>>> Since it sounded like an issue with ruby, reinstalling with ruby
>>>>>>>> 1.8.6 p420
>>>>>>>> (and rebuilding the rbel5 rubygem-chef rpm to relax the ruby version
>>>>>>>> requirement) seemed to solve the problem.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is anyone else noticing seg fauls with a combination of CentOS 5.x,
>>>>>>>> ruby 1.8.7
>>>>>>>> and Chef?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Ray
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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