[chef] Re: Re: initial installation problems on Debian Squeeze

[Motiejus Jakštys < >]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:31:50PM +0300, Motiejus Jakštys wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 01:04:39PM -0400, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> > 2012/4/10 Motiejus Jakštys 
> > <
 >:
> > > Need some ideas where to look. It would be best to get more verbose 
> > > output from
> > > apt-get, how do I do that?
> > 
> > Since you're using the apt bootstrap, /etc/chef/client.rb is created
> > by the chef debian package. You could edit this bootstrap template and
> > add this right after the the 'apt-get install -y chef' line:
> > 
> > sed -ie 's/   :info/   :debug/' /etc/chef/client.rb
> > 
> > That should change the log level for the chef client to debug, and
> > when knife bootstrap runs chef_client, it should read this value and
> > produce extra output from the apt-get run during the chef-client run.
> 
> 
> Good advise, helped me to troubleshoot some other problems already.
> :) Thanks.
> 
> This does the same, but does not depend on spaces and has no quotes:
> sed -i /^log_level/s/info/debug/ /etc/chef/client.rb

After 30 minutes it does not change log level, because it does not re-read the
configuration file. And same failure.. without logging information.

If template looks like this:
apt-get install -y chef
sed -i /^log_level/s/info/debug/ /etc/chef/client.rb
/etc/init.d/chef-client restart
(last two lines added by me), I can see the debug log, and.. It works fine.

If I just restart chef-client, it also works fine (without changing the
debug level).

Should I report a bug?

Relevance: if I do not restart chef-client in the template, it does not 
install
necessary packages on the initial bootstrap (and I see no way to get the debug
info, unless I build my own chef-client package with log_level :debug). If I
restart chef-client by hand or restart the node, it goes fine.

Though set up properly (everything works), can an enforced http proxy trigger
apt-get update error? It's set up properly (in apt preferences), but still,
first run..

Motiejus