[chef] Re: odd errors after restoring couchdb onto new chef server

[AJ Christensen < >]

On 25 February 2012 11:28,  
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 wrote:
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> hi. i'm trying to retire one chef server, and create a new one by loading
> couchdb backups from the old one. i'm taking the restored chef server
> for a spin and seeing odd errors. i'd like to ask about two things here:
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> 1) previous knife search results are no longer present on new server

you have to rebuild the index (solr), knife index rebuild

>
> 2) wierd errors running a chef-client against new server, like:
> * ERROR: Server returned error for 
> https://chef.venus.spergacula.com/cookbooks/users/1.0.0/files/[snip]
> * cookbook_file EOFError: end of file reached

did you copy the upload/copy the cookbooks to the new server? are they
in the file cache? Kind of looks like couchdb has information about
the files, but the files aren't on the chef-server file system (hazard
guess)

--AJ

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> it makes me wonder if my couchdb load is borked. i do pass to couchdb-load
> "--ignore-errors" because it won't load without that .. :>
>
>
> the first question:
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> here's the old chef server i'm attempting to retire. i do indeed get
> results from this query:
>
> [cheftain02-auw2p chef-repo]$ knife search node 'role:postfix-server' | 
> grep ^Node
> Node Name:   admin1.venus.spergacula.com
> Node Name:   admin2.venus.spergacula.com
>
>
> new chef server which was restored from the old one's couchdb:
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> [cheftain04-auw2p chef-repo]$ knife search node 'role:postfix-server'
> 0 items found
>
> .. nothing. why?
>
>
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> the second question involves lots of debugging output, seen here:
> https://gist.github.com/1904175
>
> this gist shows me trying to run cheftain04 as a chef-client against
> itself. doing this worked for me on the old server, cheftain02.
>
> any idea why i'm seeing the 2 kinds of errors therein?
>
> ERROR: Server returned error for 
> https://chef.venus.spergacula.com/cookbooks/users/1.0.0/files/[snip]
>
> and
>
> [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:55:03 +0000] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: EOFError - 
> cookbook_file[/home/billeh/.ssh/known_hosts] (users::user-file-dist line 
> 49) had an error: EOFError: end of file reached
>
>
> i note that i was able to successfully run a different chef-client
> against the new chef server successfully (after i disabled something
> in a recipe that relied on search results that are currently missing).
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>
>
> thanks much,
> kallen
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