[chef] Re: Re: Re: Knife Bootstrap Hanging

[AJ Christensen < >]

Something to consider maybe is to try using the omnibus installer for
Chef. The template is 'chef-full'. You'll get a fully installed Chef
to /opt with no conflicts with your system state. [0]

Cheers,

AJ

[0] omnibus chef/chef server install page: http://www.opscode.com/chef/install

On 25 May 2013 12:49, Jay Perry 
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 wrote:
> Hi AJ,
>
> I am using the centos5-gem template.  I was able to figure out what it was
> hanging on though, see the code here.  When running the command by hand on
> the remote system it was prompting for several gems to overwrite.  This is
> probably because when the box was first created I ran 'gem install chef' but
> then removed it but the other dependencies weren't removed thus when the
> bootstrap ran it was continually prompting to override but not displaying it
> to the user except the first one.  This caused the run to hang.  I managed
> to get by it by running the 'gem update' manually then running the bootstrap
> again.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:29 PM, AJ Christensen 
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>  wrote:
>>
>> Which bootstrap template are you using? Can you please show the full
>> command issued and debug output from Knife Bootstrap by enabling the
>> Very Verbose flags (-VV)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> AJ
>>
>> On 25 May 2013 11:44, JayP 
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>>  wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to bootstrap a node but it keeps hanging at this point no
>> > matter
>> > what I enter in afterwards.
>> >
>> > my.server
>> > my.server rake's executable "rake" conflicts with /usr/bin/rake
>> > my.server Overwrite the executable? [yN]
>> >
>> > Any ideas as to why this might be hanging?  I am running in double
>> > verbose mode
>> > but it doesn't tell me anything else.  Is there any place I can look on
>> > the
>> > remote server for additional debugging?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Jay
>
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