[chef] Little issue with Chef 0.10.4 on Natty

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Hello,

First post and wanted to quickly say: excellent product and thanks for all the
hard work. Very much appreciated!

I installed the new chef 0.10.4 from the Ubuntu repository this morning on a
server running Natty. The packages installed but failed in the configuration
phase, when configuring chef-solr:

Setting up chef-solr (0.10.4-1) ...
Creating user "chef" ...
Error: {user_already_exists,<<"chef">>}
dpkg: error processing chef-solr (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

It looks like the problem may be the same thing this bug: 
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2501 ...  ;?

In any case, I resolved it, as the post suggests, by editing
/var/lib/dpkg/info/chef-solr.postinst

and replacing:
rabbitmqctl list_users | grep -x "^chef$" 1>/dev/null
with: 
rabbitmqctl list_users | grep -e "^chef$" 1>/dev/null
and running apt-get install -f

Hope this is helpful in case others experience this. 

Graham Stewart          

 
  416-550-2806
Network and Storage Services Manager, Information Technology Services
University of Toronto Libraries