[chef] Re: Failing to configure a client via user-data on Amazon EC2

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, 

 
 wrote:
> I'm failing to configure a client via user-data on Amazon EC2. The 2 biggest
> issues I see in the log are "Cannot load environment prod" (i haven't setup 
> an
> env yet, should i?) and "Connection refused connecting to localhost:4000" 
> which
> isn't the server and not what's set in the client.rb.
You shouldn't need to worry about environments until you're ready to use them.

> Here's my 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-e5912c84"
> Chef::Log::Formatter.show_time = true
> 
> Here's my client.log
> # Logfile created on Thu Jul 28 15:22:42 +0000 2011 by logger.rb/22285
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:42 +0000] INFO: Daemonizing..
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:42 +0000] INFO: Forked, in 6051. Priveleges: 0 0
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:44 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.2 ***
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:45 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is 
> not
> present - registering
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found:
> Cannot load node i-e5912c84
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: Setting the run_list to
> ["role[ubuntu-11_04-prod-worker-sched-mail]"] from JSON
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: Run List is
> [role[ubuntu-11_04-prod-worker-sched-mail]]
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: Run List expands to
> [ubuntu-11_04-prod-worker-sched-mail]
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run for i-e5912c84
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found:
> Cannot load environment prod
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
> /var/cache/chef/failed-run-data.json
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
> /var/cache/chef/chef-stacktrace.out
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:47 +0000] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 404 "Not
> Found"
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:50 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.2 ***
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:51 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, retry 1/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:22:56 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, retry 2/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:01 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, retry 3/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:06 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, retry 4/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:11 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, retry 5/5
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:16 +0000] ERROR: Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection
> refused - Connection refused connecting to localhost:4000 for
> /nodes/ip-10-196-89-221.ec2.internal, giving up
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:16 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
> /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:16 +0000] ERROR: Sleeping for 1800 seconds before
> trying again
 It appears that a different configuration is being used between these two 
runs. Could anything be changing the client.rb file? Also, how are you 
invoking chef-client, i.e., what's the command line? And how are you 
installing chef? Is it baked in to your AMI? 

Thanks,
Dan