Ohai chefs !
I'm currently running chef-server 11.0.11 for month.
I succesfully bootstrapped a server, and decided to stop the process after the first run. I removed the newly created node and client from UI. I deleted /etc/chef and /var/chef from the server OS.
Then I tried to rebootstrap again the server... and it fails
Now the client part seems not responding :
> knife client create test
ERROR: internal server error
Response: internal service error
Bootstrapping Chef on myserver.mydomain.wtf
Starting Chef Client, version 11.10.4
Creating a new client identity for iprod-test-sa-03 using the validator key.
WARN: Failed to register new client, 4 tries remaining
WARN: Response: HTTP 500 - 500 "Internal Server Error"
[...]
Server Unavailable
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The Chef Server is temporarily unavailable
Server Response:
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<html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
[...]
knife node list is ok, and I still can converge my existing nodes.