[chef] Re: chef-client ignoring client.rb

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 9:33 PM, 

 
 wrote:
> I'm running chef .10.2-2 on Ubuntu 11.04 and attempting to use it with 
> Amazon's
> auto scaling. I'm able to create the client.rb and pass the validation.pem 
> but
> chef-client appears to ignore all and try to connect to localhost:4000. 
> Please
> see the following:
> 
> # cat /etc/chef/client.rb 
> log_level :info
> log_location "/var/log/chef/client.log"
> ssl_verify_mode :verify_none
> validation_client_name "chef-validator"
> validation_key "/etc/chef/validation.pem"
> client_key "/etc/chef/client.pem"
> chef_server_url "http://chef.pri.mydomain.com:4000";
> file_cache_path "/var/cache/chef"
> file_backup_path "/var/backups/chef"
> pid_file "/var/run/chef/client.pid"
> node_name "i-7b44f41a"
> 
> # cat /var/log/chef/client.log
> # Logfile created on Thu Jul 28 02:01:55 +0000 2011 by logger.rb/22285
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:01:55 +0000] INFO: Daemonizing..
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:01:55 +0000] INFO: Forked, in 5550. Priveleges: 0 0
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:14 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:19 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is 
> not
> present - registering
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:19 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /clients, retry 1/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:24 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /clients, retry 2/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:29 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /clients, retry 3/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:34 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /clients, retry 4/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:39 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /clients, retry 5/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:44 +0000] ERROR: Errno::ECONNREFUSED
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:44 +0000] FATAL: Connection refused - Connection
> refused connecting to localhost:4000 for /clients, giving up
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:275:in `retriable_rest_request'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:197:in `api_request'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:111:in `post_rest'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/api_client.rb:235:in `save'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:70:in `register'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:68:in `upto'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:68:in `register'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:66:in `catch'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/rest.rb:66:in `register'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:184:in `register'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:83:in `run'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:215:in `run_application'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:in `loop'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:in `run_application'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application.rb:62:in `run'
> /usr/bin/chef-client:25
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:02:44 +0000] FATAL: Sleeping for 1800 seconds before
> trying again
> 
> For giggles I tried chef-client -c /etc/chef/client.rb and receive:
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:313:in `converge': undefined method 
> `run_list'
> for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
>  from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:87:in `run'
>  from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:215:in
> `run_application'
>  from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:in `loop'
>  from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:in
> `run_application'
>  from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application.rb:62:in `run'
>  from /usr/bin/chef-client:25
Hey, so just to be certain, can you run `chef-client -v` ? That doesn't look 
like the output from Chef 0.10, and the line numbers of the methods don't 
match up quite right. I'm not sure this has anything to do with your problem 
but it might. Also, what's the exact version of ruby you have?

Thanks,

-- 
Dan DeLeo