[chef] Re: Chef Server Web Interface Behaving Oddly

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Mark Nichols wrote:
> All -
>  
> Our Chef Server web interface is behaving oddly. When refreshing a list of 
> nodes or roles or whatever it sometimes returns an error page. Usually a 
> refresh of the page returns the proper results but not always.
>  
> The error just says “Error An error occurred, please try again”.
>  
> Is there some configuration setting or parameter we can/should tweak?
>  
> The server hasn’t been restarted in about 200 days - I have no idea if this 
> is an issue or not.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks
> Mark


Check the server logs with `chef-server-ctl tail`. Nginx should be showing a 
5XX response and the corresponding request to erchef should show errors in 
the logs.

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Daniel DeLeo