[chef] Re: FATAL: Connection to rabbitmq refused. Check your rabbitmq configuration and chef's amqp* settings

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 8:16 PM, xinhui wrote:

> I am new with chef ec2. After installing a chef-server locally, then I 
> created
> two servers by knife-ec2. but suffering problem with bootstrap and client
> registry. Returned message is server connection refused. Then I tried to 
> test
> server functions and found: "knife client list" works fine but server error
> came out with cookbook upload, below is screen log. Also attached is server
> log:
> 
Looks like you're having trouble with rabbitmq somehow. It seems to work in 
this message:


> [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:12 +0800] INFO: Sending
> cookbook_version(41f907f0-371e-4187-9d6d-59d6ca52c607) to the index queue 
> for
> addition.
> [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:12 +0800] DEBUG: Pushing item to index queue for
> addition:
> enqueued_at1327464252id41f907f0-371e-4187-9d6d-59d6ca52c607typecookbook_versiondatabasechefitemdefinitionsnamechef-client-1.0.4_rev14-fd231a4afef946399b8188ede13cfa92attributesnamedefault.rbchecksumb5e6f2819d2f286dd46408dba4b4bb31pathattributes/default.rbspecificitydefaultfilesjson_classChef::
 
>  
> (mailto:
 )
> 2.0suggestionsplatformsopenbsd>= 0.0.0debian>= 0.0.0centos>= 0.0.0fedora>=
> 0.0.0mac_os_x>= 0.0.0ubuntu>= 0.0.0freebsd>= 0.0.0redhat>=
> 0.0.0maintainerOpscode, Inc.long_descriptionDescription


But this error indicates that Chef Server cannot connect to rabbitmq. Is 
rabbit running?
 
> [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:12 +0800] DEBUG: Starting AMQP connection with 
> client
> settings: #<Bunny::Client:0xb658e948 @queues={}, @status=:not_connected,
> @port="5672", @connecting=false, @verify_ssl=true, @pass="testing",
> @user="chef", @channel=#<Bunny::Channel:0xb6588d18 @number=0, 
> @frame_buffer=[],
> @active=false, @client=#<Bunny::Client:0xb658e948 ...>>,
> @disconnect_timeout=5.0, @__opts__={:pass=>"testing", :vhost=>"/chef",
> :host=>"0.0.0.0", :spec=>"08", :user=>"chef", :port=>"5672"}, @exchanges={},
> @connect_timeout=5.0, @message_out=false, @heartbeat=0, @logging=false,
> @spec="0-8", @insist=nil, @logger=nil, @ssl=false, @host="0.0.0.0",
> @message_in=false, @frame_max=131072, @logfile=nil, @read_write_timeout=nil,
> @channels=[#<Bunny::Channel:0xb6588d18 @number=0, @frame_buffer=[],
> @active=false, @client=#<Bunny::Client:0xb658e948 ...>>], @channel_max=0,
> @vhost="/chef">
> [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:15 +0800] FATAL: Connection to rabbitmq refused. 
> Check
> your rabbitmq configuration and chef's amqp* settings

> 
> 
> ===============my server.rb=================
> #
> # Chef Server Config File
> #
> # Dynamically generated by Chef - local modifications will be replaced
> 
> log_level :debug
> log_location "/root/chef-server"
> chef_server_url "http://localhost:4000";
> file_cache_path "/var/cache/chef"
> sandbox_path "/var/cache/chef/sandboxes"
> checksum_path "/var/lib/chef/cookbook_index"
> node_path "/var/lib/chef/node"
> cookbook_tarball_path "/var/lib/chef/cookbook-tarballs"
> 
> validation_client_name "chef-validator"
> 
> web_ui_admin_user_name "admin"
> 
> supportdir = "/var/lib/chef"
> solr_jetty_path File.join(supportdir, "solr", "jetty")
> solr_data_path File.join(supportdir, "solr", "data")
> solr_home_path File.join(supportdir, "solr", "home")
> solr_heap_size "256M"
> 
> solr_url "http://localhost:8983";
> 
> umask 0022
> 
> signing_ca_cert "/etc/chef/certificates/cert.pem"
> signing_ca_key "/etc/chef/certificates/key.pem"
> signing_ca_user "chef"
> signing_ca_group "chef"
> 
> =============my knife.rb=====================
> 
> keypair_path = '/root/.ssh/knife.pem'
> 
> log_level :debug
> log_location STDOUT
> node_name 'root'
> client_key '/root/.chef/root.pem'
> validation_client_name 'chef-validator'
> validation_key '/etc/chef/validation.pem'
> chef_server_url 'http://server2:4000'
> cache_type 'BasicFile'
> cache_options( :path => '/root/.chef/checksums' )
> 
> # The first things have lowest priority (so, site-cookbooks gets to win)
> cookbook_path [
> "/root/chef-repo/cookbooks", # std cookbooks from opscode/cookbooks 
> "/root/chef-repo/cluster_chef/cookbooks", 
> "/root/chef-repo/homebase/cookbooks", # your internal cookbooks
> ]
> 
> # If you primarily use AWS cloud services:
> knife[:ssh_address_attribute] = 'ec2.ap-northeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com'
> knife[:ssh_user] = 'ubuntu'
> 
> # Configure bootstrapping
> knife[:bootstrap_runs_chef_client] = true
> bootstrap_chef_version "~> 0.10.0"
> 
> knife[:aws_access_key_id] = "AKIAJHFRBNRAZZOMBYOA"
> knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "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"

There's some coverage of rabbitmq administration on the wiki page for Chef 
Indexer: 

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Indexer

HTH,

-- 
Dan DeLeo