[chef] Re: RE: RE: RE: Re: os_process_error in CouchDB

[Chris < >]

There's a rpm available for 1.0.1, I don't think it's in centos or epel. You 
should be able to get it via rpmfind.  I agree with ian, you should ipgrade

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On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:39 AM, 
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> Randy,
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> Is it possible to upgrade to 1.0.1 or greater? What OS you running? CouchDB 
> 1.0.1 is included in Ubuntu 11.10.
> 
> ian D. Rossi
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> Ian / Adam,
> On my current chef-server, my couch db is version 0.11.2
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> Randy
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> Subject: [chef] RE: Re: os_process_error in CouchDB
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> Hi Adam,
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> couch.log is 125000 lines long, so I'll include the beginning
> (http://pastie.org/3602674) and the end (http://pastie.org/3602677).
> I'll post to CouchDB's mailing list too.
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> I have to add to my below description that after I rebuilt the
> chef-server, I reloaded all of our cookbooks, roles and databags.
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> I do believe that Randy has the same issue, although I'm not sure what
> version of CouchDB he is using.
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> Ian D. Rossi
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> Subject: [chef] Re: os_process_error in CouchDB
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> Can you show us the full stack trace from CouchDB?
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> Have you showed it to the folks on the CouchDB list?
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> Adam
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:51 AM,  
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>> We are seeing a strange error in CouchDB that causes Chef to become
>> unusable and unrecoverable. The knife command ceases to respond, and
>> the chef webui ceases to respond. /var/log/couch.log shows an
>> os_process_error with exit status 0.
>> 
>> This is the second time this has happened. The first time, it happened
> 
>> to our chef-server that was running properly for several weeks. On
>> Monday, at about 11 AM EST, the error occurred and our chef-server
> became urecoverable.
>> We tried to research and recover the issue for about a day.
>> 
>> We then rebuilt the chef-server this morning. During the
>> setup/installation, we encountered this issue
>> (http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346)
>> which we had encountered in the past. We then applied the fix, by
>> increasing maxFieldLength in the mainIndex section of the chef solr
> config file.
>> 
>> Very shortly after that, while do a chef run on a lab node, running a
>> knife command and trying to access the web UI all at the same time,
>> the os_process_error occurred again and the chef-server became
> unusable.
>> 
>> Our chef-server is running on a vSphere VM with 2 cores (2 cores in 1
>> socket), 2GB of RAM. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Chef 0.10.8 and
>> CouchDB 0.10. The VM was generated from a pre-existing VM that
>> originally had only 1 core.
>> 
>> Another detail about our environment that may be important is that we
>> use Centrify on our Linux server for Active Directory integration.
>> This is why we were affected by CHEF-2346. Since chef pulls in all
>> authorized users on a node as an automatic attribute, there can be
>> thousands of users in a list that gets gathered by chef.
>> 
>> Is perhaps CouchDB dying because of the size of the node data that we
>> are asking chef to gather? Has anyone else encountered this error?
>> Much thanks for any help. Let me know if I can provide any more
> information.
>> 
>> Ian D. Rossi
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