EC2 Knife Bootstrap -> Ubuntu Package Errors

Chef Infra (archive)
1

Has anyone ever seen apt-get install errors when bootstrapping an ec2 node
using knife, only to find the package installed successfully when logging
in? Prior to today this would happen very infrequently and now I’m seeing
it happen regularly. Same recipe, different package each time.

Any troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated.

2

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alex Araujo <chef-users@alex.otherinbox.com

wrote:

Has anyone ever seen apt-get install errors when bootstrapping an ec2 node
using knife, only to find the package installed successfully when logging
in? Prior to today this would happen very infrequently and now I'm seeing
it happen regularly. Same recipe, different package each time.

Any troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated.

Could be a timeout on the first attempt, followed up by a successful attempt
the second time. You'll get slowdowns (throttling) on micro instances pretty
regularly. I'm just guessing here. Throw up some output for us to see.

-jesse

3

Hey Jesse, thanks for chiming in. This is happening on m1.small and
m1.large instances. The timeout issue seems plausible if xfs packages are
on a different (default) mirror than other packages as it appears to effect
xfs libs almost exclusively. I'm using chef 0.9.12. Here's an example
error for xfsdump, but it happens regularly with xfsprogs and xfslibs-dev:

ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:28:16 +0000]
INFO: Installing package[xfsdump] version 3.0.4
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:28:16 +0000]
ERROR: package[xfsdump]
(/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/xfs/recipes/default.rb:21:in from_file') had an error: ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com apt-get -q -y install xfsdump=3.0.4 returned 100, expected 0 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in handle_command_failures'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in
run_command' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in run_command_with_systems_locale'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in
install_package' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in action_install'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in
send' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in run_action'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:53:in
run_action' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in
each' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
call' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call_iterator_block'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in
step' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in iterate'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in
each_with_index' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:84:in
converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:268:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:171:in
run' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:222:in run_application'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in
loop' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in run_application'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in
run' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/chef-client:26 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in load'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:28:16 +0000]
ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:28:16 +0000]
ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in
handle_command_failures': apt-get -q -y install xfsdump=3.0.4 returned 100, expected 0 (Chef::Exceptions::Exec) ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in run_command'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in
run_command_with_systems_locale' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in install_package'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in
action_install' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in send'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in
run_action' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:53:in run_action'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in
converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in each'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in
converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
call_iterator_block' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in step'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in
iterate' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in each_with_index'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in
execute_each_resource' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:84:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:268:in
converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:171:in run'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:222:in
run_application' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in loop'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in
run_application' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in run'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/chef-client:26
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in
`load'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/bin/chef-client:19

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jesse Callaway jcallaway@limelabs.comwrote:

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alex Araujo <
chef-users@alex.otherinbox.com> wrote:

Has anyone ever seen apt-get install errors when bootstrapping an ec2 node
using knife, only to find the package installed successfully when logging
in? Prior to today this would happen very infrequently and now I'm seeing
it happen regularly. Same recipe, different package each time.

Any troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated.

Could be a timeout on the first attempt, followed up by a successful
attempt the second time. You'll get slowdowns (throttling) on micro
instances pretty regularly. I'm just guessing here. Throw up some output for
us to see.

-jesse

4

This doesn't look like a chef issue. I think the first step would be
running apt-get -q -y install xfsdump=3.0.4 manually on the machine to
see what is wrong with it, then if indeed the problem is with the
mirrors you can use the apt_repository resource to add another or
perhaps apt-pinning to get this package from a different repository.

Regards,
Avishai

On 01/25/2011 07:01 PM, Alex Araujo wrote:

Hey Jesse, thanks for chiming in. This is happening on m1.small and
m1.large instances. The timeout issue seems plausible if xfs packages
are on a different (default) mirror than other packages as it appears
to effect xfs libs almost exclusively. I'm using chef 0.9.12. Here's
an example error for xfsdump, but it happens regularly with xfsprogs
and xfslibs-dev:

ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011
03:28:16 +0000] INFO: Installing package[xfsdump] version 3.0.4
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011
03:28:16 +0000] ERROR: package[xfsdump]
(/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/xfs/recipes/default.rb:21:in from_file') had an error: ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> apt-get -q -y install xfsdump=3.0.4 returned 100, expected 0 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in handle_command_failures'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in
run_command' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in run_command_with_systems_locale'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in
install_package' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in action_install'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in
send' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in run_action'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:53:in run_action' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in each' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
call' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call_iterator_block'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in
step' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in iterate'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in
each_with_index' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in execute_each_resource'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:84:in converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:268:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:171:in
run' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:222:in run_application'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in
loop' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in run_application'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in
run' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/chef-client:26 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> /usr/bin/chef-client:19:in load'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/bin/chef-client:19
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011
03:28:16 +0000] ERROR: Running exception handlers
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com [Tue, 25 Jan 2011
03:28:16 +0000] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in
handle_command_failures': apt-get -q -y install xfsdump=3.0.4 returned 100, expected 0 (Chef::Exceptions::Exec) ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in run_command'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in
run_command_with_systems_locale' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in install_package'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in
action_install' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in send'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource.rb:395:in
run_action' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:53:in run_action'
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http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in each'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:89:in converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:94 ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in call'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in
call_iterator_block' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in step'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in
iterate' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in each_with_index'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:92:in
execute_each_resource' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/runner.rb:84:in converge'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:268:in
converge' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/client.rb:171:in run'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:222:in
run_application' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in loop'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application/client.rb:212:in
run_application' ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com <http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/application.rb:62:in run'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/chef-client:26
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/bin/chef-client:19:in `load'
ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://ec2-184-72-152-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com from
/usr/bin/chef-client:19

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jesse Callaway
<jcallaway@limelabs.com mailto:jcallaway@limelabs.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alex Araujo
<chef-users@alex.otherinbox.com
<mailto:chef-users@alex.otherinbox.com>> wrote:

    Has anyone ever seen apt-get install errors when bootstrapping
    an ec2 node using knife, only to find the package installed
    successfully when logging in?  Prior to today this would
    happen very infrequently and now I'm seeing it happen
    regularly.  Same recipe, different package each time.

    Any troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated. 


Could be a timeout on the first attempt, followed up by a
successful attempt the second time. You'll get slowdowns
(throttling) on micro instances pretty regularly. I'm just
guessing here. Throw up some output for us to see.

-jesse