Re: chef server down - how to troubleshoot?

According to find / there is no chef-server-ctl on the chef server.

On Aug 11, 2014, at 09:37 AM, Stephen Delano stephen@opscode.com wrote:

Hi Stuart,

When you run chef-server-ctl status from the Chef Server, what does it show?

-Stephen

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Stuart Cracraft smcracraft@me.com wrote:
When any knife to a previously
known good chef server
fails, yet the node is up and
I can ssh into the chef server...

In /var/log/chef/client.log on
the server I see ECONN refused
errors connecting to local host
port 4000 with stack trace dumps.

I see no error in server.log.

Thoughts on how to proceed?

On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Torben Knerr mail@tknerr.de wrote:

There was once https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4027 to support
SemVer with prerelease version identifiers, that would help in this
situation.

Not sure if it will ever come, though...

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Brown anbrown@blackberry.com wrote:
Thank you!

On 2014-08-08, 3:44 PM, "Daniel DeLeo" dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Friday, August 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Mike wrote:

This is currently an unsolved problem.
There's a lot of contention around versioning and Chef, and there's no
clear workflow for "what works best".

The flow Ranjib mentioned is one we do as well, and we don't freeze
cookbooks on upload for this reason.

Is it perfect? Nope. But it works for now, at least until we can
introduce better version identifiers in to Chef, chef-client, knife, and
any plugins that we leverage for that to speak the same versioning
language.

-M
Not an immediate solution, but we¹re working on it. See
chef-dk/POLICYFILE_README.md at master · chef-boneyard/chef-dk · GitHub and
Arbitrary cookbook identifiers by danielsdeleo · Pull Request #20 · chef-boneyard/chef-rfc · GitHub

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Stephen Delano
Software Development Engineer
Opscode, Inc.
1008 Western Avenue
Suite 601
Seattle, WA 98104

The main service was down.

Restarted with /etc/init.d/chef-server status|stop|start|status
and then a knife test.

On Aug 11, 2014, at 09:43 AM, Stuart Cracraft smcracraft@me.com wrote:

According to find / there is no chef-server-ctl on the chef server.

On Aug 11, 2014, at 09:37 AM, Stephen Delano stephen@opscode.com wrote:

Hi Stuart,

When you run chef-server-ctl status from the Chef Server, what does it show?

-Stephen

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Stuart Cracraft smcracraft@me.com wrote:
When any knife to a previously
known good chef server
fails, yet the node is up and
I can ssh into the chef server...

In /var/log/chef/client.log on
the server I see ECONN refused
errors connecting to local host
port 4000 with stack trace dumps.

I see no error in server.log.

Thoughts on how to proceed?

On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Torben Knerr mail@tknerr.de wrote:

There was once https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4027 to support
SemVer with prerelease version identifiers, that would help in this
situation.

Not sure if it will ever come, though...

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Brown anbrown@blackberry.com wrote:
Thank you!

On 2014-08-08, 3:44 PM, "Daniel DeLeo" dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Friday, August 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Mike wrote:

This is currently an unsolved problem.
There's a lot of contention around versioning and Chef, and there's no
clear workflow for "what works best".

The flow Ranjib mentioned is one we do as well, and we don't freeze
cookbooks on upload for this reason.

Is it perfect? Nope. But it works for now, at least until we can
introduce better version identifiers in to Chef, chef-client, knife, and
any plugins that we leverage for that to speak the same versioning
language.

-M
Not an immediate solution, but we¹re working on it. See
https://github.com/opscode/chef-dk/blob/master/POLICYFILE_README.md and
Arbitrary cookbook identifiers by danielsdeleo · Pull Request #20 · chef-boneyard/chef-rfc · GitHub

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Daniel DeLeo

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Stephen Delano
Software Development Engineer
Opscode, Inc.
1008 Western Avenue
Suite 601
Seattle, WA 98104