[chef] RE: chef-server fails on startup on ubuntu server 11.10....

[RUSSELL Scott < >]

Folks,
          Just a further follow up on the install, I had to chown the 
following directory, not sure if this was a problem specific to my install or 
something more generic.  But posting it here just in case.....

On the chef server (ubuntu 11.10)
chown -R chef:chef /var/lib/chef

        This was owned by root, which smaks of me doing something I should 
not have as "root".   

             regards

                  Sc0tt....



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From: RUSSELL Scott
Sent: 30 March 2012 14:49
To: 

 
Subject: chef-server fails on startup on ubuntu server 11.10....

Folks,
            Had a problem with chef-server starting up on ubuntu 11.10, 
having followed the bootstrap process from the opscode wiki.   This was 
tracked down to couchdb starting after the chef-server.   To fix this 
behaviour, I did the following....

# remove the existing links to start couchdb
update-rc.d -f couchdb remove

#check that no refrences to couchdb exist
ls -al /etc/rc2.d/

#check your couchd script is still there
ls -al /etc/init.d/couchdb

#setup couchdb to restart on boot (previous start/stop levels were 20, moved 
to 19, as chef-server starts on 20 on current ubuntu 11.10)
update-rc.d couchdb start 19 2 3 4 5 . stop 21 0 1 6 .

# note the "." dots are required

# restart your box to check.
reboot

# verify that chef-server is listening on port 4000
netstat -A inet -l


                                                                              
   regards

                                                                              
                Sc0tt...