[chef] Re: knife + ec2

[James < >]

I think this can also be caused by the sshd daemon taking longer to start than the timeout allows. I see it in roughly 1/20 ec2 nodes. You could bootstrap the instance, but I just delete them and re-create.

On Feb 9, 2012 5:51 AM, "mark bradley" < "> > wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to bootstrap nodes in EC2 using knife as follows:

# knife ec2 server create --flavor m1.large -I ami-1b814f72 -G DevOps -S DevOps -N foobar -x ec2-user -i /tmp/DevOps.pem -V -V

but it hangs with the following output:

DEBUG: Using configuration from /root/.chef/knife.rb

Instance ID: i-638eea06

Flavor: m1.large

Image: ami-1b814f72

Region: us-east-1

Availability Zone: us-east-1b

Security Groups: DevOps

SSH Key: DevOps

Waiting for server.......................

Public DNS Name: ec2-50-19-18-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Public IP Address: 50.19.18.3

Private DNS Name: ip-10-87-1-167.ec2.internal

Private IP Address: 10.87.1.167

Waiting for sshd.

If, however, I manually log in to the instance everything seems available:

$ ssh -i DevOps.pem " target="_blank">

The authenticity of host 'ec2-50-19-18-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com (50.19.18.3)' can't be established.

RSA key fingerprint is 0e:da:5e:4b:8d:80:7f:ba:63:89:25:ad:dd:b4:ba:a0.

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-50-19-18-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com,50.19.18.3' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

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See /usr/share/doc/system-release/ for latest release notes.

There are 23 security update(s) out of 32 total update(s) available

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Is there any way to get more debugging information from knife? Does anyone know what could be going wrong?

Thanks,

Mark