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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 11:26 AM, wrote:

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 -

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.6/bin/../lib/chef/provider/remote_file.rb:42:in

`action_create'

You have a remote_file resource that is fetching an RPM from an unreliable server. If you control that server, you should investigate it and fix it. If you do not, you could store the RPM elsewhere, either in the cookbook (though if you store your cookbooks in git, this will be a huge PITA as git accumulates different versions of the RPM over time), or S3 (makes sense because you're already using AWS anyway) or some other file storage service.

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Daniel DeLeo