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

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

We use Aegis's RPM repo for bootstrapping Chef servers on CentOS 5.x and find 
it incredibly helpful for providing all the deps.

http://blog.aegisco.com/index.php/2011/04/08/chef-0-10-pre-requisites-gecode-and-ruby-rpms/

If you can use RHEL 6.x, gecode comes with EPEL so you won't need Aegis at 
all.

- Julian

On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:

> 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 
> <
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>  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