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

[Jesse Nelson < >]

this seems like a bug to me. Its prob worth making a ticket so someone can investigate. 

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Andrey Brindeyev < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jesse Nelson < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Have you tried running the block outside of chef?  The error EAGAIN is a blocking error. Can you try to capture your process count in your actual recipe ? 

This Stackoverflow article hints that it could be something in Mixlib::ShellOut. Probably worth looking  at it. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5754753/rubys-process-fork-and-errnoeagain-due-to-batch-forking

Jesse,

I'm getting error on following block in Mixlib::ShellOut:

      def set_user

        if user

          Process.euid = uid

          Process.uid = uid

        end

      end

It's not a fork, it's actually after fork.

Same command outside chef recipe works fine.

I actually found a workaround yesterday:

bash "copy-to-pickup" do

    code "su -c 'cp -f #{xyz_filename} #{pickup_filename}' #{ node[:abcattr][:user] }"

#    user node[:abcattr][:user]

#    group node[:abcattr][:group]

    action :run

end

Works like a charm!

Andrey.