[chef] chef client locked

[Grégoire Seux < >]

Hello,

using chef 11 (11.4.0) I have noticed a strange behavior when a run fails: 
the next run won't start because of the locking introduced by 
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-867.

Log for the client is :

...
ERROR: Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Error connecting to https://chef03-am5 ;
/nodes/mem02-ty5 - Connection timed out - connect(2)
[2013-03-13T11:40:03+01:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to 
/var/cache/chef/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-03-13T11:40:03+01:00] ERROR: Sleeping for 1800 seconds before trying 
again
[2013-03-13T12:10:04+01:00] INFO: Chef client  is running, will wait for it 
to finish and then run.

I guess this is not the expected impact of the lock, is this a bug ?

Cheers,

-- 
Grégoire