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[chef] Help needed to resolve chef-server

From: Madhurranjan Mohaan < >
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Subject: [chef] Help needed to resolve chef-server
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:58:30 +0530

Hi All,

We are running chef server on a Centos 5.5 machine.

We ran into a disk space issue yesterday and then what we did was to run compaction . But we did take the backup of chef.couch .(7.6G) . Now we restarted the chef server and the webui.pem was regenerated. After deleting the current webui.pem we got knife to work and to our dismay, we found only those nodes that we had when we had done the compaction last time , which was well over a month back.

Now we wanted to restore it back . We copied the chef.couch back to its place . Now when I login to the GUI of couchdb - I can see all the environments , nodes and cookbooks . But can't access it through knife . All the processes seem to have started correctly but webui gives a HTTP 500. Can't get the chef-client to run on any box.

Even deleted webui.pem and after restarting, it didn't regenerate the webui.pem (In an earlier instance this had worked)

When I try knife configure --i and enter parameters, at the end I get this: .

ERROR: Failed to authenticate to http://chefservercom:4000 as chef-webui with key /etc/chef/webui.pem

Response: Failed to authenticate. Ensure that your client key is valid.

Logs on couchdb - I keep seeing "nil" for various documents.

[Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:26:56 GMT] [info] [<0.761.2>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'GET' /chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id?include_docs=true&key=[%22environment%22,%22qa%22] 200

[Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:26:56 GMT] [debug] [<0.761.2>] Include Doc: <<"16d8c737-df88-41a3-9030-6112ae0842b2">> nil

[Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:26:56 GMT] [debug] [<0.761.2>] Include Doc: <<"c44bf7e2-62ae-41e5-89b8-b6f81f2b71c4">> nil

Logs on chef-server -

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ undefined method `cookbook_versions' for nil:NilClass - (NoMethodError) --- We have multiple cookbook versions for certain cookbooks, so maybe this is not picking it up for some reason.

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/environment.rb:377:in `cdb_minimal_filtered_versions'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/cookbook_version_selector.rb:159:in `expand_to_cookbook_versions'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-api-0.10.4/app/controllers/environments.rb:188:in `cookbook_versions_for_run_list'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:321:in `send'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:321:in `_call_action'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:289:in `_dispatch'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:284:in `catch'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:284:in `_dispatch'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/merb_controller.rb:285:in `_dispatch'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/merb_controller.rb:262:in `_call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/merb_controller.rb:252:in `call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:91:in `dispatch_action'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:69:in `handle'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:29:in `handle'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/rack/application.rb:17:in `call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/rack/middleware/static.rb:28:in `call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/content_length.rb:13:in `call'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/connection.rb:84:in `pre_process'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/connection.rb:82:in `catch'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/connection.rb:82:in `pre_process'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/connection.rb:57:in `process'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/connection.rb:42:in `receive_data'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in `run_machine'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in `run'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:61:in `start'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.11/lib/thin/server.rb:159:in `start'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/rack/adapter/thin.rb:30:in `start_server'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/rack/adapter/abstract.rb:305:in `start_at_port'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/rack/adapter/abstract.rb:138:in `start'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/server.rb:174:in `bootup'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/server.rb:159:in `daemonize'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/server.rb:143:in `fork'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/server.rb:143:in `daemonize'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/server.rb:35:in `start'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core.rb:165:in `start'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-api-0.10.4/bin/chef-server:84

/usr/bin/chef-server:19:in `load'

/usr/bin/chef-server:19

chef-server-webui :

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4040) ~ Started request handling: Tue Aug 30 22:42:15 +0530 2011

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4040) ~ Params: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"nodes"}

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4040) ~ I cannot read /etc/chef/webui.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests! - (Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing)

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest/auth_credentials.rb:62:in `load_signing_key'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest/auth_credentials.rb:33:in `initialize'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:47:in `new'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:47:in `initialize'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/environment.rb:89:in `new'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/environment.rb:89:in `chef_server_rest'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/environment.rb:271:in `list'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-webui-0.10.4/app/controllers/application.rb:117:in `load_environments'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:352:in `send'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:352:in `_call_filters'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:344:in `each'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:344:in `_call_filters'

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.1.3/lib/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:286:in `_dispatch'