[chef] Re: chef-server(-api) not starting on starting after fresh install [CHEF-2827]

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Infor Mation wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to learn chef for two days now, and can't get it to run.
> 
> I'm installing chef on Debain (Wheezy/sid) on bare iron, and from the 
> repositories opscodes provides. (I'm a package manager junkie, shoot me)
> 
> I'm using the world's most generic x86_64 hardware.
> 
> chef-server will.not.start.
> # curl 
> http://localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id?include_docs=true\&key=[%22client%22,%22chef-validator%22]
> {"error":"compilation_error","reason":"Expression does not eval to a 
> function. ((new String(\" function(doc) {\\n 
> emit([ doc.chef_type, doc.name (http://doc.name)], doc._id);\\n 
> }\\n\")))"}


CouchDB is for some reason choking on the javascript views that the 
chef-server creates. What version of CouchDB is this?
 
> 
> 
> So far, it appears two different people have been unable to reproduce 
> this problem (one was in an aws session, i believe, i don't know about 
> the other), and I'd be as happy as a clam to deduce that this is an 
> environmental problem, but since I'm only just trying to learn chef at 
> all to begin with, I'm really short on further ideas. After googling 
> and wikiing and IRCing, I'm now mailing-listing

Off the top of my head, the only environmental bit that seems like it could 
bite is if you have crazy encoding/locale settings.
 
> 
> any help would be appreciated, tia.
> -m



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Dan DeLeo