[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef server will not start

[Jesse Nelson < >]

can try starting up the server with debug in the foreground
"chef-server -N -ldebug"  and see what it complains about.


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM, David Montgomery
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> Yes..couchdb is running.  I am rather new to chef.  Is this a common
> issue with the server?
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:28 AM, KC Braunschweig
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>  wrote:
>> Probably couchdb not running?
>>
>> KC
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2012 7:22 AM, "David Montgomery" 
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>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here are the outputs of the logs...
>>>
>>> server.log
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/_all_dbs
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/nodes
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/roles
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/data_bags
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/clients
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/users
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/cookbooks
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/sandboxes
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/checksums
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/environments
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:17:04 +0000] INFO: Loading roles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> server-webui.log
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:19:54 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/users/_view/all_id
>>> [Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:19:54 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET
>>> to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Will Maier 
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>>>  wrote:
>>> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:54:47PM +0800, David Montgomery wrote:
>>> >> Increased to fatal.  Still no entry in server log.
>>> >
>>> > I'd suggest the following:
>>> >
>>> >        log_level :debug
>>> >        log_location "/var/log/chef/server.log"
>>> >        verbose_logging true
>>> >
>>> > log_level defines the minimum level a log must have to end up in your
>>> > log file
>>> > (or STDOUT); setting it to fatal would show nothing except fatal
>>> > messages.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Will Maier
>>> > http://wcm.aier.us/