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

[David Montgomery < >]

Yay!..at least I now get an error trace.  So...how to fix?  Only
change I made is that I installed knife ec2.



 :~#
 chef-server -N -ldebug
Loading init file from /usr/share/chef-server-api/config/init.rb
Loading /usr/share/chef-server-api/config/environments/development.rb
NOTE: Gem.activate is deprecated, use Specification#activate. It will
be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem.activate called from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/core_ext/kernel.rb:142.
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:234:in
`_deprecated_activate': Deprecated use of Gem.activate(dep)
(ArgumentError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/deprecate.rb:63:in `send'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/deprecate.rb:63:in 
`activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/core_ext/kernel.rb:142:in 
`load_dependency'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/bootloader.rb:405:in 
`load_dependencies'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/bootloader.rb:405:in `each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/bootloader.rb:405:in 
`load_dependencies'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/bootloader.rb:393:in `run'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/bootloader.rb:99:in `run'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:172:in `bootup'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:42:in `start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core.rb:170:in `start'
        from /usr/sbin/chef-server:86


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jesse Nelson 
<
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 wrote:
> 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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>  wrote:
>> 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/