[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem running chef-client, just from 2 days ago.

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Mike wrote:
> Was there ever resolution on this thread?
>  
> I just got Chef-Server 11.1.1-1 running on Ubuntu 12.04, and am seeing some 
> of these types of problems when trying to run chef-client 11.12.8 
> concurrently across some 60 nodes.  
>  
> Error Resolving Cookbooks for Run List:
> Unknown Server Error: "The server had a fatal error attempting to load the 
> node data."
> Server Response: internal service error
>  
> Recipe Compile Error in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/ourcookbook/recipe.rb
> Net::HTTPFatalError: 500 "Internal Server Error"
> Trace:... points to line where we load data_bag_item from server  
>  
> Other failures point to server-side issues, as they fail on search queries.
>  
> Am open to debugging ideas, let me know what I should be hunting for.
>  
> -Mike

Run `chef-server-ctl tail` on your Chef Server machine to see the logs. 
There’s also a status command to tell you if any of the required services 
isn’t running.

--  
Daniel DeLeo