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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Hedge Hog wrote:

> 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?
No idea what the cause is. You can try clearing out rabbitmq's database, I 
believe this will be in /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit. You can simply rm 
the files/dirs in there.

After that, you'll need to configure rabbitmq again, following the 
instructions here: 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Manual+Chef+Server+Configuration#ManualChefServerConfiguration-ConfigureRabbitMQ

> 
> Best wishes.
> 
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