[chef] Re: initial installation problems on Debian Squeeze

[AJ Christensen < >]

include cookbook 'apt' before you try to install packages.

error 100 is a generic failure, usually apt-get update needs to be run
-- a new source may have been added but not fetched, etc.

--AJ

2012/4/11 Motiejus Jakštys 
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> Hi, List,
>
> When I install some packages, to Squeeze, on a completely fresh VM, doesn't
> matter which ones, it fails around every 1-3'rd package with the same 
> error[1].
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) xen-create-image --dist=squeeze
> 2) ssh hostname; apt-get install htop lsof strace
> 3) knife bootstrap hostname -x root -d ubuntu10.04-apt -P pwwwwwd
> While executing the "packages" recipe[2], it fails with error[1].
>
> Some observations:
> * after 30 minutes, when client restarts, that package comes through nicely 
> and
>  stops with same error on other package.
> * it stucks on various packages I tried (vim, zsh, curl, nmap so far, 100%
>  reproducible)
> * if I run chef-client manually, all works perfectly
> * everything exactly the same[2] (cookbooks, VM installation, ...) in lucid
>  works perfectly
>
> Need some ideas where to look. It would be best to get more verbose output 
> from
> apt-get, how do I do that?
>
> I probably don't have to mention that manually running
> apt-get -q -y install vim=2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1
>
> Works fine. So do other packages when installed manually.
>
> I suspect TTY and apt.. Can it be so that if apt does not have TTY, it 
> behaves
> differently on Squeeze? chef-client from command line makes me want to think
> about it. How do I test apt-get without a TTY?
>
> Any other ideas? If there is any more information I should provide, please 
> tell
> me.
>
> [1]: http://paste.ubuntu.com/923909/
> [2]: http://paste.ubuntu.com/923938/
>
> Motiejus
>
> P.S. I get different behaviour when installing apt-cacher-ng. It hangs here:
>
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/chef-client -d -P /var/run/chef/client.pid -L 
> /var/log/chef/client.log -c /etc/chef/client.rb -i 1800 -s 20
>  \_ [chef-client] <defunct>
>  \_ apt-get -q -y install apt-cacher-ng=0.5.1-3
>     \_ /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
>         \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>             \_ [dpkg-preconfigu] <defunct>
>             \_ /bin/sh -e /tmp/apt-cacher-ng.config.60871 configure
>
> Running chef-client manually works fine.