[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife ec2 plugin - losing my mind....

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Nope, moments before and after the same script works just fine, so no
user errors.

It's totally random so it's really hard to reproduce...

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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> im using the plugin both with and without VPC, and without any trouble.
> Certain stuff dont work in vpc mode (like security groups can not be
> referred by name etc). Are you recently getting these errors? or you are
> just trying them afresh? From your error it looks like a fog related issue.
> Can you share the full stack trace with -VV ?
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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Eric Dennis 
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>> Knife-ec2 and fog use the same EC2 API end points that the Amazon-provided
>> EC2 tools use, so there's a chance that the latter will fail as well. I
>> second the idea of testing provisioning manually and bootstrapping, at 
>> least
>> if you are in a bind.
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>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Maven User 
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>>> I've spent weeks building up this process around the knife plugin and
>>> tonight for whatever reason, things have gotten uber flaky.
>>>
>>> I think I'm going to have to redo all of this using the EC2 tools.....
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Mike 
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>>>  wrote:
>>> > You can also use EC2 API tools to launch instances and then use knife
>>> > bootstrap.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Maven User wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> time out and/or retry.
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone else?
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there an alternative to the ec2 plugin and/or fog?
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Mike 
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>>> >>  wrote:
>>> >> > Having the same recently, even without VPC.
>>> >> > Might be a Fog timeout.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Maven User wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Is anyone using this with any success?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I'm struggling to get this to work with any regularity with a vpc.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I keep getting these messages:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Waiting for server...ERROR: Fog::Errors::Error: Reload failed,
>>> >> >> Fog::Compute::AWS::Server <instance id here> went away
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Any suggestions? Totally at an end with this thing....
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