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

[Kwasi Gyasi - Agyei < >]

In regards to time verification best would be to sync both your 
services using ntp

run commands below if you not familiar with the process, may be 
different on you distro but at-least you have any idea of what to do

# ntpdate 0.us.pol.ntp.org

Setting hardware clock

# hwclock --systohc

Turn on ntpd so that service keeps you machines in sync

#chkconfig ntpd on

#service ntpd start

On Thu Aug  9 08:21:02 2012, Vladimir Girnet wrote:
> And verify time, if no in sync with server, same error may appear.
>
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 4:06 AM, Kwasi Gyasi - Agyei wrote:
>
> > 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:
> > >  >
> > > <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!
>
> --
> Vladimir Girnet
> Infrastructure Engineer
> Tacit Knowledge
> http://www.tacitknowledge.com