[chef] Re: Issue on EC2

[Seth Falcon < >]

Hi there,


 
 writes:
> I have difficulties to make chef-server works on an EC2 instance. I
> always get an issue which seems to cause processes to restart in an
> infinite loop. Processes always fall down and a lot of CPU is consumed
> by always restarting them. You can find an extract of logs at
> http://pastebin.com/BAzP11t9

The logs suggest that the rabbitmq service is unable to start because
there is already an Erlang vm with the same name:

    ==> /var/log/chef-server/rabbitmq/current <==
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.08077 0 plugins activated:
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.08081
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.12693 node with name "rabbit" already running on 
"localhost"
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13304 diagnostics:
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13335 - nodes and their ports on localhost: 
[{rabbit,47989},
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13337                                        
{bookshelf,57685},
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13338                                        
{erchef,44117},
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13338                                        
{rabbitmqprelaunch12288,54518}]
    2014-01-13_15:59:18.13343 - current node:
    
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So investigating that might be useful. Are you running any other Erlang
projects on your node?

When you run `chef-server-ctl stop`, look for Erlang vms via 

   `ps -ef|grep [b]eam`

Are there any running?

+ seth

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