[chef] Re: Re: knife bootstrap works and then fails with 401

[Kwasi Gyasi - Agyei < >]

Try removing the client from server

knife client delete your-client-name-here

One other thing which could work is removing all keys files client and 
validation from both the server and client, regenerate new key files 
and distribute new validation.pem to the client then execute 
chef-client again.



On Thu Aug  9 01:47:08 2012, Zippy Zeppoli wrote:
> I figure someone is going to ask this to troubleshoot:
>
> Client:
> # ls /etc/chef/
> client.pem  client.rb  first-boot.json  validation.pem
>
> Server:
> # ls /etc/chef
> client.pem  expander.rb  server.rb  solr.rb  validation.pem
> webui.pem  webui.rb
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Z 
> <
>  
> <mailto:
>  >>
>  wrote:
>
>     Hi List,
>     I already checked the chef common errors faq, and I winded up
>     here, so here
>     goes.
>
>     I ran :
>     # knife bootstrap 10.161.95.253 -x root
>
>     Everything worked:
>     Fetching: treetop-1.4.10.gem (100%).10.gem
>     10.161.95.253 Successfully installed treetop-1.4.10
>     ....
>     There were some errors fetching some gems, but thats not the core
>     issue:
>      ERROR:  Error installing yajl-ruby:
>
>     And then:
>      Successfully installed chef-0.10.6
>      1 gem installed
>      [2012-08-08T19:40:24-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.6 ***
>      [2012-08-08T19:40:26-04:00] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 401
>     Unauthorized:
>     Failed to authenticate. Ensure that your client key is valid.
>      [2012-08-08T19:40:26-04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
>     /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
>     [2012-08-08T19:40:26-04:00] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 401
>     "Unauthorized"
>
>     kaboom.
>
>     Why?
>
>     Thanks!