[chef] Chef-client and HTTPServerException: 401 "Unauthorized"

[David Montgomery < >]

Hi,

I need to booststap an node and I do not want to use knife.

I have a script that installed chef and then I run chef client as follows.

 chef-client -E development -K /etc/chef/ips1-validator.pem -N
Tracker_east_development_1_2_1339695020 -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json

1) the ips1-validator.pem is correct.  It is placed in /etc/chef
2) Here is my client.rb that is in /etc/chef

log_level        :info
log_location     STDOUT
chef_server_url  "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/ips1";
validation_client_name "ips1-validator"
validation_key         "/etc/chef/ips1-validator.pem"

3) Here is the first-boot.json
{"run_list":["role[nginx_server]"]}

Given that it appears that I did everything correct, why do I get the
below error?  This randomly works or fails.  The node name is based on
a time stamp.


 :/home/ubuntu#
 chef-client -E development -K
/etc/chef/ips1-validator.pem -N
Tracker_east_development_1_2_1339695020 -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json
[Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:41:28 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.10 ***
[Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:41:30 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
/var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:41:30 +0000] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 401
"Unauthorized"


My bash script for installing chef is the below

    mkdir /etc/chef
    cp /tmp/ips1-validator.pem /etc/chef
    cp /tmp/client.rb /etc/chef
    cp /tmp/first-boot.json /etc/chef
    echo "deb http://apt.opscode.com/ `lsb_release -cs`-0.10 main" ;|
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opscode.list
    mkdir -p /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
    gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 83EF826A
    gpg --export 

 
 | sudo tee
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/opscode-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
    sudo apt-get -y update
    sudo apt-get -y install opscode-keyring
    sudo apt-get -y upgrade
    echo "chef chef/chef_server_url string
https://api.opscode.com/organizations/ips1" ;| sudo
debconf-set-selections && sudo apt-get install chef -y