Doing a bit more research --
At least one item was simply a matter of me confusing myself -- my
expectation that cookbook files would be stored in the cache on the client
node appears to have been simply inaccurate. Watching the HTTP PUT by knife
cookbook upload clearly shows the files in question being put, and their
names and signatures are included when the node retrieves its list of
cookbooks. I simply wasn't seeing anything being done with run_client on
account of it being less verbose than shef's default logging level (and
because my run_list was inappropriately constructed, not including the
recipe in which I was inserting extra logging).
It looks like there's only one real issue here, and I'm wondering if it's
simply a limitation of the "solo" mode shef -z runs in:
[Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:16:33 +0000] ERROR:
template[/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo]
(/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/yumrepo/definitions/yumrepo.rb:45:in from_file') had an error: Must call Chef::Cookbook::FileVendor.on_create before calling create_from_manifest factory /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/cookbook/file_vendor.rb:34:in create_from_manifest'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb:902:in
file_vendor' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb:536:in preferred_filename_on_disk_location'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/provider/template.rb:69:in
template_location' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/provider/template.rb:39:in action_create'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in send' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in run_action'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/runner.rb:53:in
run_action' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in each' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94:in
execute_each_resource' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
call_iterator_block' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in step'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in
iterate' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in each_with_index'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in
execute_each_resource' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/runner.rb:84:in converge'
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/lib/chef/shef/ext.rb:233:in
run_chef' (irb):1:in irb_binding'
Is cookbook_file expected to work in the context of shef -z?
Beyond that, please accept my apologies for the noise.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Charles Duffy charles@dyfis.net wrote:
I've got several very odd things, likely unrelated, happening in Chef
0.9.12 -- listed here in order of importance:
- "chef-client" exits without invoking any recipes, whereas "run_chef" in
shef -z actually tries to run the cookbooks applied to this node.
- the files/ directory in one of my cookbooks isn't being pushed to the
cache on my client
- the shef command cookbooks.all appears to display "nil" for each cookbook
Pointers on any of these would be appreciated.
cookbooks$ find yumrepo/
...
yumrepo/files/default/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
...
cookbooks$ knife cookbook upload -o . yumrepo
INFO: Saving yumrepo
INFO: Validating ruby files
INFO: Validating templates
INFO: Syntax OK
INFO: Generating Metadata
INFO: Uploading files
INFO: Upload complete!
...and over on the client...
chef-client
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:05:51 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run (Version 0.9.12)
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:06:09 +0000] INFO: Chef Run complete in 17.457648
seconds
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:06:09 +0000] INFO: cleaning the checksum cache
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:06:09 +0000] INFO: Running report handlers
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:06:09 +0000] INFO: Report handlers complete
shef -z
loading configuration: /etc/chef/client.rb
Session type: solo
Loading........done.
This is shef, the Chef shell.
Chef Version: 0.9.12
Configuration Management System Software - Chef Infra | Chef
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home
run help' for help, exit' or ^D to quit.
Ohai2u root@staging.example.com!
chef > cookbooks.all
=> [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
chef > run_chef
...and things actually run as they should, until...
[Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:09:22 +0000] ERROR:
cookbook_file[/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL]
(/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/yumrepo/definitions/yumkey.rb:47:in `from_file')
had an error:
cookbook yumrepo does not contain file files/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
and indeed, /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/yumrepo/ has no files/ directory
whatsoever.