[chef] Re: Re: Problem installing chef server on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, November 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Brendan Murtagh wrote:

> Sam,
> 
> To follow up my email from earlier, I originally used the guide: 
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+on+Debian+or+Ubuntu+using+Packages
> 
> I was able to get up to 'Configure the Command Line Client' which states to 
> do:
> 
> sudo cp /etc/chef/validation.pem /etc/chef/webui.pem ~/.chef
> 
> The problem I ran into was that the /etc/chef/webui.pem file did not exist. 
> This was confirmed running 'knife configure -i' and it erroring out for 
> File Not Found.
> 
> I'm not sure how/why it wasn't created and I was able to briefly speak to 
> ssd7 on the irc chan, but he needed to step away.
FYI, Chef Server will create these files on startup. From the other 
information you provided, it seems likely that Chef Server errored out on 
submitting the client info to RabbitMQ. Getting RabbitMQ working and then 
restarting chef-server would fix this problem.

HTH,

-- 
Dan DeLeo