[chef] Re: chef-client windows service start hanging

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Florian,

I have seen this happen if the Chef run fails for some reason. You can
look at the logs in C:\chef\log and see what is happening.

Alternately, if you are on Chef >= 11.6, I invite you to try out the
new windows_service recipe, which will use Chef's new built-in service
manager on Windows. It has not been released yet in the chef-client
cookbook but it is committed to master.

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-client/commit/0a516b681ca73c93e76a2095a4434845a189eab9

- Julian

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Florian Hehlen
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 wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am having mixed success with setting up the chef-client service. I have
> about 20% of my machines on which it is failing.
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> I get the following error:
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> [2013-09-13T17:45:24+02:00] FATAL: SystemCallError: service[chef-client]
> (chef-client::winsw_service line 46) had an error: SystemCallError: The
> service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
> - StartService: The service did not respond to the start or control request
> in a timely fashion.
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> ·         I have the problem if I try to do it through “knife winrm”
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> ·         I have the same problem if I pexec onto the machine.
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> ·         I have tried to delete the service with “sc delete chef-client”
> and then re-run chef client but that only occasionally helps.
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> ·         If I jump onto one of the machines with the problem and  reinstall
> locally as an administrator and install the service as part of the wizard
> install then it seems to work fine. I am using the same account
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> Cheers,
>
> Flo



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