[chef] Re: Re: Can't re-create node after restoring CouchDB

[Jochen Lillich < >]

Ranjib Dey wrote:

> delete the client from chef server using knife (knife client delete
> <node name>), and delete the old client.pem from the node itself. then
> run chef-client on the node, and it will reregister itself.

I already tried that, but there is no client with that name:

    $ knife client delete MYNODE
    Do you really want to delete MYNODE? (Y/N) y
    ERROR: JSON::ParserError: 743: unexpected token at 'null'

Neither `knife client list` nor the CouchDB web UI display the client name.

That's why I asked if there could be something outside CouchDB (maybe the 
server filesystem) that prevents re-creating the client. Some kind of remains 
from my node creation today.

Thanks,
  Jochen