[chef] Re: Re: Re: search doesn't work on the chef server

[James Light < >]

I had a similar error message a few weeks ago.
Maybe that thread will help you.
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2012-09/msg00331.html

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ran Tavory 
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> There's my problem (why chef-expander doen't run).
>
> $ chef-expander -n1
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:233:in `activate': can't activate eventmachine
> (~> 0.12.10, runtime) for ["chef-expander-10.16.0"], already activated
> eventmachine-1.0.0 for ["amqp-0.6.7", "chef-expander-10.16.0"]
> (Gem::LoadError)
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:249:in `activate'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:in `each'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:in `activate'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1082:in `gem'
> from /usr/sbin/chef-expander:18
>
> Anyone knows how to fix this?
>
> Madhurranjan, I didn't get that far...
>
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Ran Tavory 
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>  wrote:
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>> oh hi mike, thanks.
>>
>> yes, I tried that, it runs smoothly but the index is still empty...
>>
>> $ knife index rebuild
>> This operation is destructive. Rebuilding the index may take some time.
>> You sure? (yes/no): yes
>> Chef::ApiClient:    success
>> Chef::DataBag:      success
>> Chef::Environment:  success
>> Chef::Node:         success
>> Chef::Role:         success
>>
>>
>> I think I'm missing the chef-expander process.
>> $ ps aux | grep expander
>> ubuntu    6540  0.0  0.0   7800   640 pts/3    S+   12:57   0:00 grep
>> --color=auto expander
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mike 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried "knife index rebuild" ? See
>>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Indexer
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Ran Tavory 
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>>>  wrote:
>>> > Hi, I installed chef server using the following cloud formation
>>> > configuration
>>> >
>>> > https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/chef-server-ubuntu-configuration.template
>>> > which I found linked to on the site
>>> > http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/
>>> >
>>> > This mostly worked out of the box, except for the search functionality,
>>> > which simply always returns zero results.
>>> >
>>> > Where should I dig to fixed it?
>>> >
>>> > Here's what I did:
>>> > - tried searching for nodes, clients, rols, nothing brings up data (and
>>> > I
>>> > have from all these groups)
>>> > - verified that the following processes are running:  chef-server,
>>> > chef-server-webui, couchdb, rabbitmq, chef-solr, see
>>> > https://gist.github.com/3945810
>>> > - looked at solr at http://chef:8983/solr/admin/stats.jsp and the stats
>>> > show
>>> > that there are zero indexed documents.
>>> >
>>> > So I guess solr doesn't get the input. But now what? How do I debug
>>> > this?
>>> >
>>> > thanks!
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