[chef] What kind of limit am I hitting to?

[Andrey Brindeyev < >]

Hi everybody,

I got following trace while trying to execute a bash block:

Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: bash[copy-to-pickup] (xyzcookbook::default line 56) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'

---- Begin output of "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20130129-19058-1ltcctd-0" ----

STDOUT:

STDERR: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:93:in `uid=': Resource temporarily unavailable (Errno::EAGAIN)

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:93:in `set_user'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:226:in `fork_subprocess'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:222:in `fork'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:222:in `fork_subprocess'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb:35:in `run_command'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.1.0/lib/mixlib/shellout.rb:222:in `run_command'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/shell_out.rb:30:in `shell_out'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/shell_out.rb:35:in `shell_out!'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/execute.rb:62:in `action_run'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:in `call'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:in `add_action'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider.rb:152:in `converge_by'

        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-10.18.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/execute.rb:61:in `action_run'

Contents of that bash block is:

bash "copy-to-pickup" do

    code "cp -f #{xyz_filename} #{pickup_filename}"

    user node[:abcattr][:user]

    group node[:abcattr][:group]

    action :run

end

I've increased nproc and nofile limits in /etc/security/limits.conf file __before__ starting and is doesn't resolve my problem:

# grep userid /etc/security/limits.conf 

userid - nproc 4096

userid - nofile 4096

# ps -eLF | grep userid | wc -l

1756

I have a plenty of disk space available on that host.

What else to check?

Andrey.