[chef] Re: Debugging dependencies

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

This is a known issue in the Open Source Server’s dependency resolver. This 
will be fixed in 11.1, which will be released soon. We’re expecting an RC to 
go out in a day or so and full release next week.  

--  
Daniel DeLeo


On Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> since some days my opensource-chef-server is acting up. Most hosts work  
> just fine, for some hosts erchef takes ~1000(!) seconds to process the  
> dependencies. And eats all the cpu. Thankfully this doesn't block other  
> clients from getting their data. But some hosts haven't been able to get  
> the data for a successfull chef run for some days now. It seems to be  
> some of my cookbooks, alone or in combination. But I am currently  
> lacking data to debug this.
>  
> Is there a way to make erchef output the dep-cycles its calculating per  
> request? Or is there a way to query dependencies on chef-server by hand?
> I tried setting "erchef['log_level'] = :debug" in  
> /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb followed by "chef-server-ctl  
> reconfigure" but that resulted only in one info-level logline per  
> request.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> Arnold