[chef] Re: easy_install errors

[Thom May < >]

assuming you're on a recent release, check out retries -
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-CommonAttributes

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:45 AM, David Montgomery
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 wrote:
> About 10% of the time when I do a chef bootstrap, the bootstrap fails
> because of easy install errors.  This has serious implications for
> fail-overs.  The packages are at random.  I have never had a problem
> running a easy install from the command line or from a bash script.
> So..why is the a persistent issue with a chef bootstrap?  This time is
> was easy_install with pytz.  Next time....who knows.....
>
> I am bootstrapping a a ec2 ubuntu 64 on ec2
>
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
> +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
> +0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
> /var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
> +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
> +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
> +0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: easy_install_package[pytz]
> (php_base::default line 117) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:
> easy_install "pytz==2012c" returned 1, expected 0
>
>
> so...are there known issues?  What can be done?  For a known package,
> it would be great if there was a retry function rather than killing a
> chef boostrap.  Or is there a functionality that I am not aware?
>
> Thanks