mysql cookbook fails : Chef::Exceptions::Exec: apt-get -q -y install mysql-client=5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 returned 100, expected 0

msql-cookbook-fails

I created a folder for vagrant, edited Vagrantfile, created a cookbooks folder and   
    git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/mysql.git    
    git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/build-essential.git  
    git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/openssl.git
and then vagrant up but chef failed.

[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.14.2 ***
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[build-essential]", "recipe[openssl]", "recipe[mysql]", "recipe[mysql::client]", "recipe[mysql::server]"] from JSON
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[build-essential], recipe[openssl], recipe[mysql], recipe[mysql::client], recipe[mysql::server]]
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [build-essential, openssl, mysql, mysql::client, mysql::server]
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for precise64
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Could not find previously defined grants.sql resource
[2012-11-08T14:52:50+00:00] INFO: Processing package[build-essential] action install (build-essential::default line 51)
[2012-11-08T14:52:59+00:00] INFO: Processing package[binutils-doc] action install (build-essential::default line 51)
[2012-11-08T14:53:01+00:00] INFO: Processing package[autoconf] action install (build-essential::default line 58)
[2012-11-08T14:53:04+00:00] INFO: Processing package[flex] action install (build-essential::default line 58)
[2012-11-08T14:53:06+00:00] INFO: Processing package[bison] action install (build-essential::default line 58)
[2012-11-08T14:53:08+00:00] INFO: Processing package[mysql-client] action install (mysql::client line 46)

================================================================================
Error executing action `install` on resource 'package[mysql-client]'
================================================================================

Chef::Exceptions::Exec
----------------------
apt-get -q -y install mysql-client=5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 returned 100, expected 0

Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/mysql/recipes/client.rb

 45: node['mysql']['client']['packages'].each do |mysql_pack|
 46:   package mysql_pack do
 47:     action :install
 48:   end
 49: end

Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/mysql/recipes/client.rb:46:in `from_file'

package("mysql-client") do
  retry_delay 2
  retries 0
  recipe_name "client"
  action [:install]
  cookbook_name :mysql
  package_name "mysql-client"
end

[2012-11-08T14:53:09+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2012-11-08T14:53:09+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2012-11-08T14:53:09+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-stacktrace.out
[2012-11-08T14:53:09+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: package[mysql-client] (mysql::client line 46) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: apt-get -q -y install mysql-client=5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 returned 100, expected 0
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

Thanks, that did it!

for whatever reason i have to run apt-get update before almost every (yes multiple times) cookbook (mysql, php, ...) otherwise i get this error ...

thanks. I have recipe "apt", but still got the problem. I do "sudo apt-get update", then I run chef-client. It works nicely.
Unfortunately, I write my own package resource (in my own recipe). I do this, but problem still cannot be solved.

raising the VM's memory from 256M to 1024M solved this issue for me without any calls of apt-get update

mysql (3.0.0) works fine.

mysql (3.0.2) isn't working for me using gem (2.0.7)

I have the same issue. I had to ssh into the box and run "sudo apt-get update" then re-run the config with vagrant reload before my mysql recipe finished. My default recipe has include_recipe 'apt' listed first too. Still does not work. I also made the total ram '4096'.

This was happening to me when I would use the mysql_database resource. I found that adding notifies :run, 'execute[apt-get update]', :immediately will trigger apt-get update.

mysql_database 'test' do
  notifies :run, 'execute[apt-get update]', :immediately
  connection(
    :host     => 'localhost',
    :username => 'test',
    :password => 'test'
  )
  action :create
end

Including apt-get update on compile time with one of your recipes also helps. (But this is database cookbook error related) This worked for me:

execute "compile-time-apt-get-update" do 
  command "apt-get update" 
  ignore_failure true 
  action :nothing 
end.run_action(:run) 

include_recipe "mysql::server"
include_recipe "mysql::client"
include_recipe "database"
include_recipe "mysql::ruby"

can anybody explain what the underlying nature of the problem is? I've hit this issue, with the mysql cookbook, so many times it's pretty much wiped out any time advantage when using chef for the rest of my life. Seriously, the time I spend getting past this pretty much triples what it would take to just install everything by hand. And that doesn't include the giant time suck with learning chef itself. Is the problem with the mysql cookbook? Or the apt cookbook? Or some issue with the apt repositories? I've used every trick in the fucking book to get apt recipe to update, and I'll still hit this. Sometimes, it actually works though. Most annoying is when you get it working in an app cookbook, and then a few months later, you use the exact same recipe on a new box, and you hit it again. Can anybody explain what the fuck, exactly, is the deal with this? As you can probably guess, I'm in the midst of it yet again, right now... ;-)

@wkhatch: I'm in the same boat here. I've reviewed dozens of tutorials that all say "include apt::default early in your run list" but I continue to run into this issue. It's pathetic that there's no clear answer to this anywhere.

I've spent a long time on this problem, and I finally found some relevant discussions. I'm going to link to them here because this gist seems to rank pretty highly for whatever I searched:

chef-boneyard/build-essential#32
sous-chefs/apt#75
https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4534

The basic thing that's happening here is that build-essential (usually - it could be another cookbook) is running at chef compile time, before chef gets around to actually executing the run_list. They've added an option to the apt cookbook to fix this, apparently.

In my case, I wasn't aware that an attributes file in an unrelated cookbook (an old version of the elasticsearch cookbook) was setting build-essential's compile_time attribute to true. Removing that fixed this problem for me, because build-essential would no longer run at compile time, and therefore apt would have a chance to run and update its cache (it's first in my run_list).

I hope this helps.