[chef] Re: Odd behavior with Chef Server

[KC Braunschweig < >]

Well, you could run some test commands with knife on the server itself
connecting to localhost. That should show if the problem is an
external networking issue or not. If not, can you pull the server logs
and see what it thinks is happening?

KC

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Aaron Abramson
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 wrote:
> Hello,
> First time on the list...
> I have a vanilla chef-server deployed on Ubuntu 11.04 on a m1.small EC2
> instance.  I just followed the opscode ubuntu apt-get install instructions.
> My chef-server EC2 instance is associated with an elasticIP,
> and chef.mydomain.com is a CNAME to the public DNS of the elastic IP.  I'm
> pretty new to both EC2 and Chef, so I'm not sure if this is an EC2 security
> group issue, or a chef-server issue.
> Everything worked at first, but now I'm getting errors; when deleting nodes
> or clients from the chef-server, I get errors every time, but they are
> successfully deleted:
>
> aabramson$ knife client list
>   aabramson
>   chef-validator
>   chef-webui
>   ip-10-90-186-175.ec2.internal
>   retest
>   ubuntu
>   yetanothertest
> aabramson$ knife client delete yetanothertest
> Do you really want to delete yetanothertest? (Y/N) y
> ERROR: Server returned error
> for http://chef.mydomain.com:4000/clients/yetanothertest, retrying 1/5 in 3s
> ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
> Response: Cannot load client yetanothertest
> aabramson$ knife client delete ip-10-90-186-175.ec2.internal
> Do you really want to delete ip-10-90-186-175.ec2.internal? (Y/N) y
> ERROR: Server returned error
> for http://chef.mydomain.com:4000/clients/ip-10-90-186-175.ec2.internal,
> retrying 1/5 in 3s
> ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
> Response: Cannot load client ip-10-90-186-175.ec2.internal
> aabramson$ knife client list
>   aabramson
>   chef-validator
>   chef-webui
>   retest
>   ubuntu
> aabramson$
>
>
> And now when I try to launch/bootstrap new instances on EC2, the bootstrap
> fails:
> aabramson$ knife ec2 server create -I ami-06ad526f -f t1.micro -S mykeypair
> -G default,management,www -Z us-east-1a -N newinstance -x ubuntu
> .
> .
> .
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com Successfully installed chef-0.10.0
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com 15 gems installed
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:03 +0000]
> INFO: *** Chef 0.10.0 ***
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:03 +0000]
> INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:08 +0000]
> INFO: HTTP Request Returned 500 Internal Server Error: Connection failed -
> user: chef
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:08 +0000]
> ERROR: Server returned error for http://chef.mydomain.com:4000/clients,
> retrying 1/5 in 3s
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:11 +0000]
> INFO: HTTP Request Returned 409 Conflict: Client already exists
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:11 +0000]
> INFO: HTTP Request Returned 403 Forbidden: You are not allowed to take this
> action.
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:11 +0000]
> FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:49:11 +0000]
> FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 403 "Forbidden"
> Instance ID: i-2b87554a
> Flavor: t1.micro
> Image: ami-06ad526f
> Availability Zone: us-east-1a
> Security Groups:
> Public DNS Name: ec2-67-202-33-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> Public IP Address: 67.202.33.226
> Private DNS Name: domU-12-31-38-04-E1-8F.compute-1.internal
> SSH Key: wfg-ec2keypair
> Private IP Address: 10.220.226.125
> Root Device Type: ebs
> Root Volume ID: vol-b9585ad2
> Root Device Name: /dev/sda1
> Root Device Delete on Terminate: true
> Environment: _default
> Run List:
> abramson$ knife client list
>   aabramson
>   chef-validator
>   chef-webui
>   newinstance
>   retest
>   ubuntu
> aabramson$ 
> 
 
> Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-8-virtual i686)
> .
> ..
> 
 :~$
>  sudo chef-client
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.0 ***
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is
> not present - registering
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 409 Conflict:
> Client already exists
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 403 Forbidden:
> You are not allowed to take this action.
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
> /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:33 +0000] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 403
> "Forbidden"
> 
 :~$