[chef] RE: Re: installing chef server

[Paul Morton - BIA < >]

Kelley - I have not had an opportunity to do root cause analysis on my recent 
issues with chef installation from the apt repo, but I can share the 
following problems and their resolution:

1. RabbitMQ does not seem to want to start on Ubuntu 10.04. I resolved this 
by installing the latest DEB from the rabbit MQ website.
2. After installing the latest RabbitMQ, I had to update my hostname to an 
address that was resolvable (silly me). After that RabbitMQ Starts fine.
3. I installed chef from the apt repo.
4. http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346. Read and apply the fi ;
suggested by Grzegorz Marszałek. Otherwise search may be inaccurate.
5. Ready to go!

Note that if you end up having to remove and re-install chef, I found that 
the chef user and vhost in rabbitmq seem to stick around. This will cause the 
re-install to fail.
See the rabbitMQ man page for details on how to delete users and vhosts: 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/man/rabbitmqctl.1.man.html

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan McLellan 
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:26 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: installing chef server

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Kelly Goedert 
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 wrote:
> I have a VM with ubuntu 11.10. Can I install chef-server simply by 
> using apt-get install chef-server? Or, is it better to follow all the 
> instructions in opscode site?

You can use apt, but you'll need to use our repository. Our release cycle is 
faster than Ubuntu's so we've put on hold getting it into upstream.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+on+Debian+or+Ubuntu+using+Packages

Bryan