[chef] intermittent Errno::ETIMEDOUT: error connecting to chef server

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Hi,

I have seen this problem intermittently when creating AWS instances. This
causes the configuration automation very unreliable. Could somebody shed some
clue about this?

thx,

Xianfeng


 
 cache]# more chef-stacktrace.out 
Generated at Tue Dec 04 08:19:32 +0000 2012
Errno::ETIMEDOUT: remote_file[omakase-release.rpm] (mspot_omakase::default 
line
38) had an error: Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Error c
onnecting to
http://omakase.mspot.com/yum/5/x86_64/omakase-release-5-2.noarch.rpm -
Connection timed out - connect(2)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:in `timeout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:101:in `timeout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1035:in `request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest/rest_request.rb:84:in
`call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest/rest_request.rb:99:in
`hide_net_http_bug'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest/rest_request.rb:83:in
`call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:261:in
`streaming_request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:296:in
`retriable_rest_request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:259:in
`streaming_request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:139:in `fetch'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/provider/remote_file.rb:42:in
`action_create'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:440:in
`send'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:440:in
`run_action'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:45:in
`run_action'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in
`converge'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in
`converge'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94:in
`execute_each_resource'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
`call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
`call_iterator_bloc
k'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in
`step'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in
`iterate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in
`each_with_index'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in
`execute_each_resource'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:76:in
`converge'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:312:in
`converge'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:160:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:239:in
`run_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in
`loop'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:229:in
`run_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:67:in
`run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/chef-client:26
/usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-client:19

 
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