[chef] Re: how to deal with the download error and retry

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

If the issue is a flaky upstream, you can configure a resource to retry on failure: http://docs.opscode.com/resource_common.html

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Daniel DeLeo

On Friday, September 27, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Sam Su wrote:

Hi,

I am running an openstack cookbooks, however the chef-client cannot run very smoothly most of the time. some error information as below comes out when running the cookbook:

Recipe: openstack-network::openvswitch

  * service[quantum-server] action restart

    - restart service service[quantum-server]

  * service[quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent] action restart

    * service[quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent]: unable to locate the init.d script!

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Error executing action `restart` on resource 'service[quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent]'

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Chef::Exceptions::Service

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service[quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent]: unable to locate the init.d script!

The log information is listed as follows:

* Chef::Exceptions::Exec occurred in chef run: package[openstack-nova-console] (openstack-compute::vncproxy line 35) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:  returned 1, expected 0

---- Begin output of  ----

STDOUT: STDERR:

Error Downloading Packages:

  openstack-nova-console-2013.1.3-2.el6.noarch: failure: openstack-nova-console-2013.1.3-2.el6.noarch.rpm from openstack: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

---- End output of  ----

* Chef::Exceptions::Service occurred in delayed notification: service[nova-console] (openstack-compute::vncproxy line 50) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Service: service[nova-console]: unable to locate the init.d script!

* Chef::Exceptions::Service occurred in delayed notification: service[nova-consoleauth] (openstack-compute::vncproxy line 57) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Service: service[nova-consoleauth]: unable to locate the init.d script!

From the above log file, the chef client sometimes cannot download the specific package successfully, then the cookbooks failed.

I am wondering what is the best way to handle this situation in the chef world. 

If someone can give me some hints, it will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Sam