[chef] Re: where does error output go?

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

This error is thrown in the postinstall script of the RPM, so no, it's
not captured by Chef other than the non-zero exit code from calling
yum.

Personally I think this is silly behavior on the part of Oracle, but I
guess there's no winning that battle...

- Julian

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, phil swenson 
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 wrote:
> I was trying to use the oracle-xe recipe and got this error on execution:
>
> [2014-05-05T15:42:06+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
> /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> Chef Client failed. 9 resources updated in 224.123914276 seconds
>
> I looked at the stacktracke.out and the trace didn’t help at all.
>
> I did see that the oracle xe recipe installs an oracle RPM via yum_package
> so I simply tried running the RPM directly using
>
> rpm -i /var/chef/cache/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
>
> This revealed the problem:  /usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in 
> `<main>'
 
> ~]# rpm -i /var/chef/cache/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
>
> This system does not meet the minimum requirements for swap space.  Based on
> the amount of physical memory available on the system, Oracle Database 11g
> Express Edition requires 1992 MB of swap space. This system has 0 MB
> of swap space.  Configure more swap space on the system and retry the
> installation.
>
>
> So my question:  does chef log this root cause error anywhere?  Am I missing
> something obvious?  This message was not output to the console and wasn’t in
> the tracelog.
>
> Thanks!
> phil



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