About 10% of the time when I do a chef bootstrap, the bootstrap fails
because of easy install errors. This has serious implications for
fail-overs. The packages are at random. I have never had a problem
running a easy install from the command line or from a bash script.
So…why is the a persistent issue with a chef bootstrap? This time is
was easy_install with pytz. Next time…who knows…
I am bootstrapping a a ec2 ubuntu 64 on ec2
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
/var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: easy_install_package[pytz]
(php_base::default line 117) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:
easy_install “pytz==2012c” returned 1, expected 0
so…are there known issues? What can be done? For a known package,
it would be great if there was a retry function rather than killing a
chef boostrap. Or is there a functionality that I am not aware?
Thanks
assuming you're on a recent release, check out retries -
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-CommonAttributes
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:45 AM, David Montgomery
davidmontgomery@gmail.com wrote:
About 10% of the time when I do a chef bootstrap, the bootstrap fails
because of easy install errors. This has serious implications for
fail-overs. The packages are at random. I have never had a problem
running a easy install from the command line or from a bash script.
So..why is the a persistent issue with a chef bootstrap? This time is
was easy_install with pytz. Next time....who knows.....
I am bootstrapping a a ec2 ubuntu 64 on ec2
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
/var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: easy_install_package[pytz]
(php_base::default line 117) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:
easy_install "pytz==2012c" returned 1, expected 0
so...are there known issues? What can be done? For a known package,
it would be great if there was a retry function rather than killing a
chef boostrap. Or is there a functionality that I am not aware?
Thanks
Thom pointing out retries is good advice. We're also missing the bit
of log that would tell you why easy_install fails.
Adam
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:45 AM, David Montgomery
davidmontgomery@gmail.com wrote:
About 10% of the time when I do a chef bootstrap, the bootstrap fails
because of easy install errors. This has serious implications for
fail-overs. The packages are at random. I have never had a problem
running a easy install from the command line or from a bash script.
So..why is the a persistent issue with a chef bootstrap? This time is
was easy_install with pytz. Next time....who knows.....
I am bootstrapping a a ec2 ubuntu 64 on ec2
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
/var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: easy_install_package[pytz]
(php_base::default line 117) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:
easy_install "pytz==2012c" returned 1, expected 0
so...are there known issues? What can be done? For a known package,
it would be great if there was a retry function rather than killing a
chef boostrap. Or is there a functionality that I am not aware?
Thanks
--
Opscode, Inc.
Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer
T: (206) 619-7151 E: adam@opscode.com
Thanks...thats a feature I missed. But...I have a lot of easy
installs. I have not found an issue with installing packages with
apt-get. Only with easy_install. I have a lot of easy installs and
will have to trap them all. Again, I have never had an issue with
easy install from bash or command line, only with chef and would be
interesting to find out why.
Thanks
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Adam Jacob adam@opscode.com wrote:
Thom pointing out retries is good advice. We're also missing the bit
of log that would tell you why easy_install fails.
Adam
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:45 AM, David Montgomery
davidmontgomery@gmail.com wrote:
About 10% of the time when I do a chef bootstrap, the bootstrap fails
because of easy install errors. This has serious implications for
fail-overs. The packages are at random. I have never had a problem
running a easy install from the command line or from a bash script.
So..why is the a persistent issue with a chef bootstrap? This time is
was easy_install with pytz. Next time....who knows.....
I am bootstrapping a a ec2 ubuntu 64 on ec2
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Saving node information to
/var/chef/cache/failed-run-data.json
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
ec2-23-20-103-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:45
+0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: easy_install_package[pytz]
(php_base::default line 117) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:
easy_install "pytz==2012c" returned 1, expected 0
so...are there known issues? What can be done? For a known package,
it would be great if there was a retry function rather than killing a
chef boostrap. Or is there a functionality that I am not aware?
Thanks
--
Opscode, Inc.
Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer
T: (206) 619-7151 E: adam@opscode.com
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, David Montgomery
davidmontgomery@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks...thats a feature I missed. But...I have a lot of easy
installs. I have not found an issue with installing packages with
apt-get. Only with easy_install. I have a lot of easy installs and
will have to trap them all. Again, I have never had an issue with
easy install from bash or command line, only with chef and would be
interesting to find out why.
change
log_level :info
to
log_level :debug
in /etc/chef/server.rb
and reproduce. Then look at the logs in /var/log/chef.
--
Motiejus Jakštys