[chef] Re: Facing 401 unauthorized errors intermittently on Windows

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Madhurranjan Mohaan
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 wrote:
> I am trying to get the Windows VMs to run jobs similar to bootstrap. The
> knife vsphere plugin wasn't quite working. So I have a powershell script
> that spawns off a VM and uses Customization spec. As part of the
> customization spec, I run the following command :
> "C:\opscode\chef\bin\chef-client -j C:\etc\chef\first-boot.json" . As part
> of my template, I already have chef installed along with the c:\etc\chef
> containing "client.rb", " validation.pem" and "first-boot.json" .
>
> Problem is that this seems to be working alternatively. Every 2nd time it
> fails with the 401 Authorized error ( Searched for this error and I can
> safely say that the various files are right). I have opened the Vmware
> console a couple of times to see what happens and every time I do that I can
> see that the chef run succeeds  .  Any suggestions around what I can do to
> make this more stable?

Are you sure the node_name (based on the hostname) of the VMs are all
different? The new client could be trying to register with the same
name of an existing client.

Bryan