[chef] Chef-Shell question WAS RE: Re: RE: Re: Undefined Method drives Sous Chef Mad. Film at 11.

[Ross Mohan < >]

Thanks for responding to that, Brian. 

This time, interestingly enough, it fails immediately, without my ever 
getting a chance to query cookbooks (local or server-based):


    rosss-air:.chef rossmohan$ chef-shell -z
    loading configuration: /etc/chef/client.rb
    Session type: client
    Loading....[2014-02-19T19:06:49-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused 
connecting to https://localhost/nodes/rosss-air.home, retry  ;
    1/5
    ..........[2014-02-19T19:06:54-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused 
connecting to https://localhost/nodes/rosss-air.home, retry 2/5
    ..........[2014-02-19T19:06:59-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused 
connecting to https://localhost/nodes/rosss-air.home, retry 3/5
    ..........[2014-02-19T19:07:04-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused 
connecting to https://localhost/nodes/rosss-air.home, retry 4/5
    .....^C
    
================================================================================
    Chef encountered an error attempting to load the node data for 
"rosss-air.home"
    
================================================================================


Thanks, too, for the link. I'll look into that. 

Sure is a lot to get used to.

-Ross

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From: Bryan McLellan 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:51 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Undefined Method drives Sous Chef Mad. Film at 11.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Ross Mohan 
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 wrote:
> I did try debugging via single-stepping chef-shell, but it gave me hours of
> grief on "connection refused" (regardless of firewall state)
>
> rosss-air:.chef rossmohan$ chef-shell
>
> chef > cookbooks.all
>
> [2014-02-19T10:11:42-05:00] ERROR: Connection refused connecting to
> https://localhost/cookbooks, retry 1/5

chef-shell in standalone mode doesn't load cookbooks.

http://docs.opscode.com/chef_shell.html

Loading chef-shell in client mode with "chef-shell -z" is probably
what you wanted. It can take a little getting used to.

Bryan