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

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Sam Hamilton 
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 wrote:
> I have managed to move forward a little bit there was a problem with
> rabbitmq resolving the local host name and that was stopping the
> installation process. You could successfully resolve svr004.dfw but not
> svr004. So I reinstalled the machine and started from scratch this time
> making sure the svr004 hostname resolved before installing.
> It now looks like rabbitmq installs but the full install fails:
> 
 :~#
>  sudo apt-get install chef chef-server
> [SNIP]
> Setting up libjetty-extra-java (6.1.22-1ubuntu1) ...
> Setting up solr-jetty (1.4.0+ds1-1ubuntu1) ...
>  * Not starting jetty - edit /etc/default/jetty and change NO_START to be 0
> (or comment it out).
> Setting up chef-solr (0.10.4-1) ...
> Creating vhost "/chef" ...
> ...done.
> sh: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
> dpkg: error processing chef-solr (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chef-expander:
>  chef-expander depends on chef-solr (>= 0.10.4); however:

I regularly use the debs to install on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I haven't
seen this particular issue.

This would be in the parsing of this script:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/chef-solr.postinst

What happens if you run "sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/chef-solr.postinst
configure" ? You should get the same error.

When it prompts you for a password for amqp/rabbitmq, are you giving
it one? Are you using any special characters in your password, like
maybe quotes?

Can you try running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure chef-solr' again with a
simple password like "password" or "something"?

Bryan