[chef] Issue deploying with application cookbook - STDERR: fatal: reference is not a tree: af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01

[Cassiano Leal < >]

Hi,

I have a few apps that are deploying using the application cookbook (_php and _ruby). They work just fine most of the time, but every now and then when bootstrapping a new node I get these weird errors.

This is the interesting part on the debug log of the chef run:

  * deploy_revision[resourcemanager] action deploy[2013-07-23T14:08:47+00:00] INFO: Processing deploy_revision[resourcemanager] action deploy (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/application/providers/default.rb line 122)

[2013-07-23T14:08:47+00:00] DEBUG: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] finding current git revision

[2013-07-23T14:08:47+00:00] DEBUG: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] resolving remote reference

af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01 refs/heads/develop

[2013-07-23T14:08:50+00:00] DEBUG: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] not creating /opt/apps/resourcemanager because it already exists

[2013-07-23T14:08:50+00:00] DEBUG: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] not creating /opt/apps/resourcemanager/shared because it already exists

[2013-07-23T14:08:50+00:00] DEBUG: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] finding current git revision

[2013-07-23T14:08:50+00:00] INFO: deploy_revision[resourcemanager] cloning repo :zynkmobile/resourcemanager.git to /opt/apps/resourcemanager/shared/cached-copy

Cloning into '/opt/apps/resourcemanager/shared/cached-copy'...

    - clone from :zynkmobile/resourcemanager.git into /opt/apps/resourcemanager/shared/cached-copy[2013-07-23T14:08:55+00:00] WARN: Error on deploying /opt/apps/resourcemanager/releases/af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '128'

---- Begin output of git checkout -b deploy af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01 ----

STDOUT:

STDERR: fatal: reference is not a tree: af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01

---- End output of git checkout -b deploy af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01 ----

Ran git checkout -b deploy af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01 returned 128

[2013-07-23T14:08:55+00:00] INFO: Removing failed deploy /opt/apps/resourcemanager/releases/af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01

    - remove failed deploy /opt/apps/resourcemanager/releases/af5c7ff84dd852cf1c0b5ca60ea92546a20dda01[2013-07-23T14:08:55+00:00] DEBUG: Creating directory /var/chef/cache/revision-deploys

As can be seen, it finds the Git revision to deploy, clones the directory, but then cannot find the revision. I poked on the cached-copy, and it doesn’t have the branch from which I’m deploying, neither local nor origin/branch, which would certainly explain the error. What I don’t understand is why the branch is not there, since it’s definitely in the repo (and was found before, via git ls I presume).

Is there something else that should be set on the application resource so that this error would not occur?

Cheers,

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Cassiano Leal

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