EOFError: end of file reached

The chef client is running as crontab, sometimes I got error of “EOFError: end of file reached”, help to check attached email for detail. It’s not occurred every time, 2-3 time per week for 40 nodes running chef-client every half an hour.

Sincerely,
Mingfei Hua

The Subject is "Failed Chef run on node
cloud30-prod-global-afsweb-002.aerohive.com"

If you ssh this host, and run sudo chef-client by hand, always work?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mingfei Hua mfhua@aerohive.com wrote:

The chef client is running as crontab, sometimes I got error of “EOFError:
end of file reached”, help to check attached email for detail. It’s not
occurred every time, 2-3 time per week for 40 nodes running chef-client
every half an hour.

Sincerely,

Mingfei Hua

--
-- Tiago Cruz

I was getting an EOFerror a couple weeks ago due to
cookbook/cache/optimization files. I was able to use knife-solve and
knife-crawl to narrow down which cookbooks were the problem. (if you run
chef-client -o "recipe[base]" - or something you know works, it will
complete a chef run, probably). I also had a spike in erchef's CPU usage
on my chef server with the corruption, so you may be able to correlate a
commit with your monitoring if you also have this cpu spike. once you
track down the cookbook, knife delete --purge and reupload it.

Hope this helps.
Jake

22:33 well, EOFError is just the client saying that the HTTP

request was narfed really, so it doesn't know much other than what it was
just asking for

22:34 which -l debug helps you find

22:34 right

22:35 so what gets left of a chef server when u delete a

cookbook, but dont purge it?

22:35 therein lies the culprit

22:36 I believe it deletes any files that came with it

22:36 when Chef stores data it stores data keyed by the file hash

22:36 to dedupe

22:36 So if you --purge, any other cookbook that relies on those

files would stop working

22:37 premature optimization possibly

22:38 like it not detecting a change?

22:38 well, let's say you upload cookbooks x, y and z

22:38 and they all have a file foo.rb in them

22:38 and that's the same file

22:38 chef stores them as hashes to dedupe data (which may be a

premature optimization that causes other problems but that's a different
cat to skin)

22:39 so if you remove the cookbook, I think it just removes the

records, but if you --purge, it deletes the files

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Tiago Cruz tiago.tuxkiller@gmail.com
wrote:

The Subject is "Failed Chef run on node
cloud30-prod-global-afsweb-002.aerohive.com"

If you ssh this host, and run sudo chef-client by hand, always work?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mingfei Hua mfhua@aerohive.com wrote:

The chef client is running as crontab, sometimes I got error of “EOFError:
end of file reached”, help to check attached email for detail. It’s not
occurred every time, 2-3 time per week for 40 nodes running chef-client
every half an hour.

Sincerely,

Mingfei Hua

--
-- Tiago Cruz

Hi Tiago,
It’s always work when I try to run it by hand.
Regards,
Mingfei

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Sent: 2014年10月15日 20:52
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If you ssh this host, and run sudo chef-client by hand, always work?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mingfei Hua <mfhua@aerohive.commailto:mfhua@aerohive.com> wrote:

The chef client is running as crontab, sometimes I got error of “EOFError: end of file reached”, help to check attached email for detail. It’s not occurred every time, 2-3 time per week for 40 nodes running chef-client every half an hour.

Sincerely,
Mingfei Hua


– Tiago Cruz