[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server 12 upgrade failure

[Michael Hart < >]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the response. We have chef server 11 and 12 installed on the same node, which is arguably not the best approach but so be it.

So versions:

Chef Server 11.1.1-1

Chef Server 12.0.5-1

Chef Client 11.16.4-1

We trimmed down the amount of data in chef significantly and am running another export again. I dare not say that it’s going well for fear of jinxing it, except that it’s been running for > 6 hours. 

Thanks

mike

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Michael Hart

Arctic Wolf Networks

226.388.4773

From: Mark Mzyk
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Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 11:25
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Subject: [chef] Re: Chef Server 12 upgrade failure

Hi Michael,

You're correct that it's using knife download. To give you more insight into the process, all the upgrade code is here: https://github.com/chef/opscode-omnibus/tree/master/files/private-chef-ctl-commands

Look at the chef12_upgrade* files and the open_source_chef12_upgrade.rb file.

Specifically, the knife download is run here: https://github.com/chef/opscode-omnibus/blob/master/files/private-chef-ctl-commands/open_source_chef12_upgrade.rb

I don't know why it would fail during the upgrade but work for you locally. On the upgrade it is using the bundled in chef-client that is used to configure the chef server, so perhaps it is a difference in client version. You can, if you explore the upgrade code, replicate manually what the upgrade code is doing using your local chef-client and then you could proceed on with the other steps.

Can you tell me what version of the chef-client you're using that works? I think I've seen this error crop up for others but I'm not sure what causes it. Also what versions are your Chef 11 server and Chef 12 server package?

Thanks,

Mark

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March 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM

We are trying to upgrade to Chef Server 12 (from 11.1.1), and ran into this error when running the "chef-server-ctl chef12-upgrade-download” command (which I think is just doing “knife download /“):

ERROR: Chef::ChefFS::FileSystem::NotFoundError: Chef::ChefFS::FileSystem::NotFoundError

knife download failed with pid 9244 exit 100

It was in the middle of downloading a few versions of a cookbook, which I can download successfully using knife cookbook download.

From what we can tell there’s no errors in the chef server log at all.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks

mike

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Michael Hart

Arctic Wolf Networks

226.388.4773