[chef] Chef server bootstrap via chef-solo and startup

[Hedge Hog < >]

Hi,
I have a chef server installed on an tiny EC2 instance which I am able
to run once, however on terminating/restarting I find that the
chef-expander process is in a die-restart loop.
The  startup log suggests it is an issue around starting the database.
startup_log, startup_err, erl_crash.dump and rabbit.log are here:
https://gist.github.com/1047284

I'm also seeing the following error periodically (about 50% of
occasions) when installing the Chef server via the chef-solo bootstrap
described on the opscode wiki/site:
https://gist.github.com/1047565

Has anyone experienced this and have a solution, or can suggest what
might be the cause of this?

Best wishes.

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