[chef] Re: Re: initial chef-client run won't exit

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011, Brad Knowles wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:08 PM, 
> 
 
>  wrote:
> 
> > my client is Centos 5.7, chef 0.10.4-1. the way i intialize chef on the
> > client is by running:
> > 
> > chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json -L /var/log/chef/client.log -l 
> > debug --once
> > 
> > but that first chef-client run never exits, it hangs onto the tty (if
> > there is one). or when it's run at first boot via an init script, i see
> > the same hang.
> 
> The last time I saw anything like that, it was because someone had changed 
> their knife.rb to default chef to staying resident and not exiting, which 
> apparently does not get over-ridden by command-line options like "--once".
 
(yeah that was me back on Nov 2nd)

> > 
 
> >  ~]# cat /etc/chef/client.rb 
> > log_level        :info
> > log_location     STDOUT
> > interval         21600
> 
> Oh, sorry -- it must have been this option in the client.rb, not in 
> knife.rb.  But notice that the chef process below is running with a "-i 
> 21600" argument, which is why all the chef-client runs will sleep at the 
> end of the run instead of terminating.
> 
> Try removing this option.


but that option is actually not present for the very first chef-client
run. (sorry that wasn't clear from my initial post). the first run to
bootstrap the system runs with a client.rb in place like this:


 
 ~]# cat /etc/chef/client.rb-first-boot-here-y0h
log_level          :info
log_location       STDOUT
ssl_verify_mode    :verify_none
chef_server_url    "https://10.doop.burf.113";
file_cache_path    "/var/cache/chef"
file_backup_path   "/var/lib/chef/backup"
pid_file           "/var/run/chef/client.pid"
cache_options({ :path => "/var/cache/chef/checksums", :skip_expires => true})
signing_ca_user    "chef"
Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time = true
environment "dev"


there is no interval stated there. the client.rb that shows the interval
is a result of the chef-client recipe running during that first
chef-client run.

and even if the first chef-client run used a client.rb with an interval set, 
shouldn't using --once override the looping? that's what i understood from 
Dan DeLeo's response here: 
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2011-11/msg00025.html


i'm running this again on a fresh system from the top:


 
 ~]# chef-client -c /etc/chef/client.rb-first-boot-here-y0h -j 
/etc/chef/first-boot.json -L /var/log/chef/client.log -l debug --once

and the result is the same behavior as before.


kallen