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

[Friedrich Clausen < >]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Julian C. Dunn 
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 wrote:
> 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/
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> If you can use RHEL 6.x, gecode comes with EPEL so you won't need Aegis at 
> all.

Julian, thanks! I'll take a look at that. Most of our hosts are
currently RHEL 5.x but we'll be starting to roll out RHEL 6.x so
that's good info.

All - thanks for the other suggestions - I will try them out too.

Fred.

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