[chef] Re: Re: Re: Problem with notifies

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, May 25, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

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> On Friday, May 25, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Zuhaib Siddique wrote:
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> > Gah! This is going to suck… Going to need to tweak our chef_client 
> > cookbook to lock to older version till this is fixed (not fun)
> > On May 25, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Michael Glenney 
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> > > I submitted a bug for that last week. You can track it here: 
> > > http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3135
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> > > MG
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> > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Zuhaib Siddique 
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> > >  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >  
> > > > I am running in to an odd problem with notification in Chef 10.10, it 
> > > > seems suddenly this block of code is not working as expected:  
> > > >  
> > > > execute "set-hostname" do
> > > > command "hostname --file /etc/hostname"
> > > > action :nothing
> > > > end
> > > >  
> > > > file "/etc/hostname" do  
> > > > content "#{new_hostname}"
> > > > notifies :run, "execute[set-hostname]", :immediately
> > > > end
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > In the chef log I get this:
> > > >  
> > > > .compute-1.amazonaws.com (http://compute-1.amazonaws.com/) [Fri, 25 
> > > > May 2012 20:13:57 +0000] INFO: Processing execute[set-hostname] 
> > > > action nothing (gridiron-deploy::default line 44) 
> > > > .compute-1.amazonaws.com (http://compute-1.amazonaws.com/) [Fri, 25 
> > > > May 2012 20:13:57 +0000] INFO: Processing file[/etc/hostname] action 
> > > > create (gridiron-deploy::default line 49) .compute-1.amazonaws.com 
> > > > (http://compute-1.amazonaws.com/) [Fri, 25 May 2012 20:13:57 +0000] 
> > > > INFO: file[/etc/hostname] backed up to 
> > > > /var/chef/backup/etc/hostname.chef-20120525201357 
> > > > .compute-1.amazonaws.com (http://compute-1.amazonaws.com/) [Fri, 25 
> > > > May 2012 20:13:57 +0000] INFO: file[/etc/hostname] contents updated
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > But when I login to the box the hostname is not set. Inspecting 
> > > > /etc/hostname show its populated with the correct info and running 
> > > > hostname --file /etc/hostname on the box works but it seems via Chef 
> > > > its no go. On a local box using shef it works fine. Beside me getting 
> > > > hack-y and making it a bash command any ideas?  
> > > >  
> > > > Zuhaib  
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> Hey guys, you're only seeing this bug on resources that manage files?
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> I'm pretty sure the problem is here:
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/mixin/enforce_ownership_and_permissions.rb#L34
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> Can you confirm that changing that line to  
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> new_resource.updated_by_last_action(true) if access_controls.modified?
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> fixes it?
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> Thanks in advance
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> --  
> Dan DeLeo

I committed a fix for this in master. Can you guys test and confirm it fixes 
your issue?

Feel free to ask if you need help building chef from master.

Thanks in advance,

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Dan DeLeo