[chef] Re: solr unable to index certain nodes

[Eric Heydrick < >]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eric Heydrick 
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 wrote:
> I'm getting solr errors when certain nodes are indexed:
>
> Oct 25, 2011 11:19:13 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log
> SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: ParseError at 
> [row,col]:[2,44199]
> Message: Element type "field" must be followed by either attribute
> specifications, ">" or "/>".
>
> I ran chef-indexer in debug mode and got the xml it was sending to
> solr, ran that through an XML validator and it shows invalid XML from
> the DMI BIOS info:
>
>  "Characteristics": {
>   "CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)": null,
>   "5.25\"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)": null,
>   "5.25\"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)": null,
>
> I think the slashes are tripping it up. All the nodes that are failing
> to index are running Ohai 0.6.x whereas the nodes running 0.5 index
> just fine. Ohai 0.6.0 started including a lot more DMI information.
> This is with Chef 0.9.18 on both client and server.
>
> I created OHAI-309 for this.

Upgrading the server from 0.9.18 to 0.10.4 fixed this for me.