Hi All,
this is my first crack at chef so I’m prepared to be wildy wrong, but
I think it cannot handle the size of my default password file.
the setup:
I’m using 0.10.8 opensource server running on Debian 6.0
(stable/squeeze) from opscode apt repository
workstaion is also Debian/Squeeze 0.10.8 from OpsCode repo
I have two nodes setup both installed with knife bootstrap from my
workstaion:
node1 is a bare install of ubuntu-server 11.04
node2 is our current standard Debian/Squeeze workstation install which
includes all kinds of packages and all of our user accouts (spoiler:
this node fails to run but reducing number of accounts makes it work):
wc -l /etc/passwd
2551 /etc/passwd
both have empty runlists.
node1 bootstrapped nicely
node2 got all the packages and configs to make chef-client go
registered client and node on the server but on first run:
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:05 -0500] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:09 -0500] INFO: Run List is []
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:09 -0500] INFO: Run List expands to []
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:09 -0500] INFO: Starting Chef Run for node2.csail.mit.edu
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:09 -0500] INFO: Running start handlers
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:09 -0500] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:10 -0500] INFO: Loading cookbooks []
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:46:55 -0500] WARN: Node node2.csail.mit.edu has an empty run list.
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:46:59 -0500] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 500 Internal Server Error: 400 “Bad Request”
[Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:46:59 -0500] ERROR: Server returned error for
http://chef.csail.mit.edu:4000/nodes/lore.csail.mit.edu, retrying 1/5
in 3s
Looking on the server I notices an insanly long line logs with all the
ohai info (most notably user account info) and these errors after:
merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ 400 “Bad Request” - (Net::HTTPServerException)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2105:in error!' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:245:inapi_request’
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:296:in retriable_rest_request' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:226:inapi_request’
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/rest.rb:130:in put_rest' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/couchdb.rb:114:instore’
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/node.rb:618:in cdb_save' /usr/share/chef-server-api/app/controllers/nodes.rb:69:inupdate’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:315:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:315:in_call_action’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/controller/abstract_controller.rb:289:in _dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/controller/merb_controller.rb:252:in_dispatch’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:102:in dispatch_action' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:74:inhandle’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/dispatch/dispatcher.rb:36:in handle' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/rack/application.rb:17:incall’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/rack/middleware/static.rb:28:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rack/content_length.rb:13:incall’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/connection.rb:76:in pre_process' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/connection.rb:74:incatch’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/connection.rb:74:in pre_process' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/connection.rb:57:inprocess’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/connection.rb:42:in receive_data' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/eventmachine.rb:257:inrun_machine’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/eventmachine.rb:257:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/backends/base.rb:57:instart’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thin/server.rb:156:in start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/rack/adapter/thin.rb:30:instart_server’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/rack/adapter/abstract.rb:298:in start_at_port' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/rack/adapter/abstract.rb:128:instart’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:174:in bootup' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:159:indaemonize’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:143:in fork' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:143:indaemonize’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core/server.rb:35:in start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/merb-core.rb:170:instart’
/usr/sbin/chef-server:86
Restricting /etc/passwd on node2 to just system accounts and myself:
wc -l /etc/passwd
26 /etc/passwd
chef-client run succeeds