[chef] Re: First run on Ubuntu 12 node: /var/cache/chef/cookbooks hierarchy contains no files

[Kevin Yank < >]

On 08/09/2012, at 1:36 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> Is it possible you're running two chef-client instances at once, perhaps 
> one out of init/cron/upstart/runit/etc. and one in the foreground of the 
> bootstrap? The run_list doesn't get saved until the end of the bootstrap 
> run, so a second chef-client will see an empty run_list and then purge the 
> cache of "unneeded" files. 

Thanks so much, Daniel! Something like that may well be going on!

I have chef-solo installing chef-client, which gets launched as a daemon; 
however, the attributes I’m supplying for chef-client’s configuration aren’t 
being properly applied (a mystery I still need to look into), so I’m then 
patching /etc/chef/client.rb and running chef-client once to make sure it 
runs correctly before relaunching the daemon with ‘service chef-client 
restart’.

So yes, I’d say I have a race condition between the misconfigured chef-client 
daemon run and the config-patched ‘test run’. I should be able to fix that by 
killing the daemon before launching the test run.

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Kevin Yank
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