[chef] chef-client (still) randomly failing

[Phil Cryer < >]

I'm still failing to get chef-client to run on it's own without failing due to timeouts. I have 4 CentOS 6.4 nodes in QA, overnight usually 2 will fail and show as 'red' the next day - it runs hourly, so they'll be down for 10+ hours. I login to the node, stop chef-client, run it manually, and it works. 

1) Why is it timing out on NTP, and even failing as it retries 4 times in a row? 

2) Why doesn't it fix itself on the next run? It seems to fail, and then never recover.

Full logs here:

https://gist.github.com/philcryer/7549743