[chef] Re: Problem accessing databag from node

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

We had this exception when the chef-solr service died on the chef
server. Figure out what killed itc and restart was our approach.

* This was a result of some process updating the owner/permissions on
/var/log/chef and /var/run/chef so that solr failed during startup.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Michael Glenney 
<
 >
 wrote:
> I'm having problems with a 403 error when trying a new cookbook and I think
> I've tracked it down to databag access.
>
> Chef Server 10.0
> chef-client 10.4
>
> The first several lines of the stacktrace:
>
> Generated at 2011-12-08 04:12:07 +0000
> Net::HTTPServerException: 403 "Forbidden"
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2303:in `error!'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:237:in `block in
> api_request'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:288:in
> `retriable_rest_request'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:218:in
> `api_request'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/rest.rb:130:in `put_rest'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/data_bag_item.rb:227:in
> `save'
> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/ejabberd/recipes/default.rb:45:in `from_file'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in
> `instance_eval'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/mixin/from_file.rb:30:in
> `from_file'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb:578:in
> `load_recipe'
>
>
> The relevant part of that recipe is:
>
> # Find cluster master, or create item and become master
> if search(:ejabberd, "id:#{deployid}").count == 0
>   masternode = "#{node[:ipaddress]}"
>   h = {}
>   h[deployid] = {"id" => deployid, "master" => masternode, "members" =>
> [masternode]}
>
>   # Create new data bag item for cluster
>   databag_item = Chef::DataBagItem.new
>   databag_item.data_bag("ejabberd")
>   databag_item.raw_data = h[deployid]
>   databag_item.save
> else
>
> This is for a first chef run on a new node.  If I run shef, switch to recipe
> context, and run 'search(:ejabberd, "id:deployment_000010182")' I get back:
>
> chef:recipe > search(:ejabberd, "id:deployment_000010182")
> [Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:05 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, retry 1/5
> [Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:10 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, retry 2/5
> [Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:15 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, retry 3/5
> [Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:20 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, retry 4/5
> [Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:51:25 +0000] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, retry 5/5
> Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - Connection refused connecting to
> localhost:4000 for /search/ejabberd, giving up
>
> but my /etc/chef/client.rb has the proper url:port for my chef server.  If I
> run the same command from my local box I get back:
>
> chef:recipe > search(:ejabberd, "id:deployment_000010182")
>  => []
>
> which is what I expect.  Any ideas where I should be looking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MG
>



-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald