[chef] Re: Chef 12 duplicates nodes from a node search

[Stuart Cracraft < >]

This required the following to fix:

  chef-server-ctl reindex ORG
  chef-client

My question is why would the index get out-of-order in the first place?

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Stuart Cracraft 
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> Has anyone noticed in Chef 12 the following scenario? 
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>   nodes = search(:node, "hostname:*) 
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> returns duplicates of the last host added. 
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> So any cookbook which then uses the nodes variable gets a duplicate. 
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> That's in a ruby recipe and likewise with the cli: 
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>   knife search "hostname:*" -c /etc/chef/client.rb
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> also showing a duplicate of the last returned node.
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> If you knife node delete and knife client delete the duplicate, 
> the next higher node is then listed as duplicated by the search() query.
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