[chef] Re: Re: Re: Using vagrant + chef-zero and do not expect to see these error messages

[Lamont Granquist < >]

You probably used a base box that already had an old version of chef installed, and you either don't have the vagrant-omnibus plugin installed or you've misconfigured it somehow, or there's two version of chef-client on the virt and Vagrant's provisioner is getting the wrong one, etc.

All those issues are solved if you use test-kitchen instead.

On 1/29/15 3:13 PM, Anthony Kong wrote:

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Hi Lamont,

Why chef client 11.8.2 is installed in the guest OS?

I had this line in my Vagrantfile already:

     config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

I would expect it will install the latest version of chef for me to the guest OS, right?

Cheers, Tony

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Lamont Granquist < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

You are using chef-client 11.8.2 (which is ancient at this point) installed in /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby and not the omnibus install.

Best way to get started using chef and vagrant is to use test-kitchen out of ChefDK:

https://gist.github.com/lamont-granquist/40d26b6fa8178212594f

On 1/29/15 7:02 AM, Anthony Kong wrote:

Hi, 

I am using chef-zero and do not expect to see these error messages in the guest OS. According to doco, chef-zero is supposed to use a dumb-down version of chef-server which does not perform authentication or authorization. So there is no reason for the client to need the perm files, right?

Client log

:/var/log/chef$ cat client.log

# Logfile created on 2015-01-29 04:28:14 +0000 by logger.rb/31641

[2015-01-29T04:28:14+00:00] INFO: Daemonizing..

[2015-01-29T04:28:14+00:00] INFO: Forked, in 1317. Privileges: 0 0

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.8.2 ***

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 2065

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] WARN: Failed to read the private key /etc/chef/validation.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /etc/chef/validation.pem>

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] ERROR: I cannot read /etc/chef/validation.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] ERROR: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

[2015-01-29T04:28:32+00:00] ERROR: Sleeping for 1800 seconds before trying again

[2015-01-29T04:28:45+00:00] INFO: SIGTERM received, exiting gracefully

chef-stacktrace.out

:/var/log/chef$ sudo cat /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

Generated at 2015-01-29 04:28:32 +0000

Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing: I cannot read /etc/chef/validation.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/http/authenticator.rb:74:in `rescue in load_signing_key'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/http/authenticator.rb:64:in `load_signing_key'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/http/authenticator.rb:38:in `initialize'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:63:in `new'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:63:in `initialize'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/api_client/registration.rb:111:in `new'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/api_client/registration.rb:111:in `http_api'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/api_client/registration.rb:93:in `create'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/api_client/registration.rb:84:in `create_or_update'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/api_client/registration.rb:57:in `run'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/client.rb:380:in `register'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/client.rb:486:in `do_run'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/client.rb:199:in `block in run'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/client.rb:193:in `fork'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/client.rb:193:in `run'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/application.rb:208:in `run_chef_client'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/application/client.rb:312:in `block in run_application'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/application/client.rb:304:in `loop'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/application/client.rb:304:in `run_application'

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/application.rb:66:in `run'

Here is my vagrant provision clauses:

config.vm.provision "chef_zero" do |chef|

    # Do not need to specify cookbook path because berkshelf plugin

    #    handles cookbook management

    # Must provide ssl.json in data bag for sensu

    chef.data_bags_path = "data_bags"

    # Enable this for debug info

    chef.log_level = :debug

    chef.add_recipe 'apt'

    chef.add_recipe 'python'

    chef.add_recipe 'vim'

    chef.add_recipe 'git'

    chef.add_recipe 'sensu::default'

    chef.add_recipe 'sensu::rabbitmq'

    chef.add_recipe 'sensu::redis'

    chef.add_recipe 'sensu::server_service'

    chef.json = {

      :git   => {

        :prefix => "/usr/local"

      }

    }

  end

Target OS is  ubuntu/trusty64

My vagrant plugins:

$ vagrant plugin list

chef-zero (2.2.1)

vagrant-aws (0.6.0)

vagrant-berkshelf (4.0.2)

vagrant-cachier (1.2.0)

vagrant-chef-zero (0.7.1)

vagrant-omnibus (1.4.1)

vagrant-share (1.1.3, system)

Cheers, Tony