[chef] Re: Large cookbook uploads fail with "unauthorized" after data upload

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
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 wrote:
> Is there a way to get a cookbook with several very large files to
> upload via knife without this happening:
>
> Uploading testcookbook             [0.5.0]
> <-----Pauses here for about 30 mins while the cookbook uploads 90MB
> ERROR: Failed to upload #<Chef::CookbookVersion:0x10178fdf0> : 401 
> Unauthorized
> {"error":["Failed to authenticate. Please synchronize the clock on
> your client"]}
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rest-client-1.6.1/lib/restclient/abstract_response.rb:48:in
> `return!': 401 Unauthorized (RestClient::Request::Unauthorized)

Why are you putting several very large files in Chef? Surely there are
more efficient ways to manage these files? It is likely that such
files would take a long time to download when required by the client
and likewise time out.



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