[chef] Re: Problem bootstrapping chef-server on RHEL 5.4

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Fred,

sorry, can't help you with the gecode issue, but in general you might
want to check out the knife-server [1] plugin for bootstrapping (and
backup/restore) of chef servers.

There's currently only a bootstrap template for debian based systems
[2], but you might be able to adapt that for redhat based distros.

HTH, Torben


[1] http://fnichol.github.com/knife-server/
[2] 
https://github.com/fnichol/knife-server/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/chef-server-debian.erb

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Friedrich Clausen 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Summary:
>
> I am following the installation guide for chef-server using chef-solo
> [1] and all went well up to the installation of the Ruby gem
> "chef-server-api" which fails with
>
> checking for main() in -lgecodesearch... no
> Gecode >3.5 must be installed (http://www.gecode.org/).
>
> Details:
>
> I have gone through the RHEL/CentOS notes [2] and ensure the following is 
> done
>
> * SELinux is disabled
> * EPEL repo is enabled
> * /usr/local/lib is in ld.so.conf and "ldconfig -p | grep gecode"
> shows that the relevant gecode libs are being "seen" by the linker.
> * The gecode libraries are definitely in /usr/local/lib as opposed to
> /usr/local/lib64
>
> however it still appears that the chef-server-api gem is unable to
> find the correct libraries. I also tried
>
> * Setting "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" but this did not help.
> * Manually install the latest gecode libs in /usr/local but this did not 
> help.
>
> Any info would be much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred.
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
> [2] 
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo#InstallingChefServerusingChefSolo-CentOS%2FRHELInstallationNotes