[chef] Re: Re: occasionally client fails with 404 when copying a file

thanks jesse -- 

i'm assuming at this point, that moving us from chef 10.x server to chef 11
will be a non-trivial amount of work. but i haven't assessed it deeply yet. i
do want to move to chef 11, but, Priorities[TM]...

does anyone know if chef 11 is the one and only answer to this?

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013, Jesse Campbell wrote:

> I used to get that periodically on my chef 10.16 and 10.18 servers, but
> haven't seen it at all in chef 11... have you considered upgrading just the
> server? (i'm guessing there's another reason you're waiting to upgrade the
> clients).
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:26 PM, 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > i'm often plagued by a chef client run failing due to it getting a 404 on
> > a file
> > it was trying to copy into place as declared in a recipe. is this known?
> >
> > here's how it goes down:
> >
> > 1) i update file like
> > site-cookbooks/foo/files/default/usr/local/bin/my-cool-tool.
> > 2) some linux host kicks off its chef client run, which includes a recipe
> > that
> >    calls remote_directory to copy the contents of
> > site-cookbooks/foo/files/default/usr/local/bin/
> >    to the local filesystem
> > 3) i run "knife cookbook upload foo" just after the above client has
> > kicked off
> >    its run
> > 4) the chef client run fails because when it tries to copy the file
> >    site-cookbooks/foo/files/default/usr/local/bin/my-cool-tool it gets a
> > 404
> >    for it. if i run chef client again right after this, it succeeds.
> >
> > i can repro it pretty consistently. is this known? a known bug? is there a
> > known workaround? today, in one of the many places in my recipes where i
> > copy
> > a file, where this 404 problem occasionally plagues us, i put "retries 3"
> > into
> > the resource block. i'm betting that'll help, but i'm hoping there's a
> > better
> > fix or work around. if there's not, i'll have to add retries in a lot of
> > places.
> >
> > chef client details: 10.24, Amazon Linux 2012.09 (RHEL6-based)
> > chef server details: 10.18, Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
> >
> > thanks!
> > kallen
> >