[chef] Re: ERROR: No socketless chef-zero server

[Ted B < >]

> On 7 May 2015, at 11:13 am, Daniel DeLeo 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> I don't think there's a bug. Just user error. I finally figured it out.
> Glad to hear.
>> As an aside: is there a way to do bootstrap from knife in local mode?
> Chef Provisioning can create machines from local mode but knife does not 
> have this ability.

I’m having the same issue - but I’m using chef-provisioning for bootstrap. It 
only fails when the chef zero socketless mode is tried to be used by the 
client on each node.

    - [cheffrontendTEST1.int] update node cheffrontendTEST1.int at 
chefzero://localhost:8889
    - [cheffrontendTEST1.int]   add normal.aws_ha_chef = 
{:aws_access_key_id=>”x", :aws_secret_access_key=>”y", 
:backend1=>{:fqdn=>”chefbackendTEST1.int", :ip_address=>"172.21.1.85"}, 
:backend2=>{:fqdn=>”chefbackendTEST2.int", :ip_address=>"172.21.1.86"}, 
:frontends=>{:fe1=>{:fqdn=>”cheffrontendTEST1.int", 
:ip_address=>"172.21.1.88"}, :fe2=>{:fqdn=>”cheffrontendTEST2.int", 
:ip_address=>"172.21.1.111"}}}
    - [cheffrontendTEST1.int]   remove 
normal.aws_ha_chef[2015-05-18T17:04:41+10:00] INFO: Converging 
cheffrontendTEST1.int because the resource was updated ...
[2015-05-18T17:04:41+10:00] INFO: Port forwarded: local URL 
chefzero://localhost:8889 is available to 172.21.1.88 as 
chefzero://localhost:8889 for the duration of this SSH connection.
[2015-05-18T17:04:41+10:00] INFO: Executing sudo chef-client -l info on 

 
    [cheffrontendTEST1.int] [2015-05-18T07:04:41+00:00] INFO: Forking chef 
instance to converge...
                                 Starting Chef Client, version 12.3.0
                                 [2015-05-18T07:04:41+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 
12.3.0 ***
                                 [2015-05-18T07:04:41+00:00] INFO: 
Chef-client pid: 1505
                                 
                                 
================================================================================
                                 Chef encountered an error attempting to load 
the node data for “cheffrontendTEST1.int"
                                 
================================================================================
                                 
                                 Unexpected Error:
                                 -----------------
                                 ChefZero::ServerNotFound: No socketless 
chef-zero server on given port 8889
                                 
                                 [2015-05-18T07:04:42+00:00] FATAL: 
Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
                                 Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 
0.859637226 seconds
                                 [2015-05-18T07:04:42+00:00] ERROR: No 
socketless chef-zero server on given port 8889
                                 [2015-05-18T07:04:42+00:00] FATAL: 
Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully 
(exit code 1)
[2015-05-18T17:04:42+10:00] INFO: Completed chef-client -l info on 

 :
 exit status 1

Using chefDK 0.6.0 and client 12.3 as well.

$ chef gem list |grep chef
chef (12.3.0)
chef-dk (0.6.0)
chef-provisioning (1.1.1)
chef-provisioning-aws (1.1.1)
chef-provisioning-azure (0.3.2)
chef-provisioning-fog (0.13.2)
chef-provisioning-vagrant (0.8.3)
chef-vault (2.4.0)
chef-zero (4.2.1, 1.5.6)
cheffish (1.2)
chefspec (4.2.0)

#knife.rb
log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'bootstrap'
client_key               '/Users/ted/chef/.chef/bootstrap.pem'
validation_client_name   'bootstrap'
#chef_server_url         'http://localhost:8889'
validation_key           '/Users/ted/chef/.chef/keys/bootstrap.pem'
syntax_check_cache_path  '/Users/ted/chef/.chef/syntax_check_cache'
cookbook_path [ '~/chef/cookbooks', '~/chef/berks-cookbooks' ]
knife[:aws_access_key_id] = “x"
knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = “y"
knife[:region] = "ap-southeast-2”

It’s been driving me crazy all day.
Before ChefDK 0.6.0 and Client 12.3 I used to instantiate a local chef-zero 
server and it would bootstrap fine. 
I’ve even tried the —no-listen option; but no luck.

Not sure if it’s a bug in chef-provisioing-aws, but I might raise an issue 
over with them too.

(I do have a forward slash in my secret access key - which I’ve read 
somewhere can be an issue, but chef-provisioning is bootstrapping OK; just 
client runs failing)

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Ted
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