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Troubleshooting a chef client/recipe

Debugging Chef with Shef

When the chef client fails to run the recipe successfully during bootstrapping sudo chef-client to setup the connection with the chef-server. It will run with an empty run list. After its connected login to http://yourchefserver.com:4040/nodes/_NODE_NAME_, add the roles/recipes to the chef-client and run sudo chef-client from the client again.

When fixing a recipe and re-running make your modifications run knife cookbook upload -a #or cookbook name from your dev machine and run sudo chef-client from the chef client.

When there are issues registering the client with the chef-server check that the chef-client name isn't already registered on the server under clients or nodes or that the client has not already been registered (see below)

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#cloud-config

output:
  all: ">> /var/log/cloud-init.log"

# the chef server's alias will be "chef", add a /etc/hosts entry for it
bootcmd:
  - echo 127.0.0.1 chef >> /etc/hosts

apt_sources:

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ORIGINAL_JENKINS_SERVER=
ORIGINAL_SERVER_USER=

NEW_JENKINS_SERVER=
NEW_SERVER_USER=

# ON THE ORIGINAL JENKINS SERVER
ssh $ORIGINAL_SERVER_USER@$ORIGINAL_JENKINS_SERVER
cd /var/lib/jenkins/
for i in `ls jobs`; do echo "jobs/$i/config.xml";done > config.totar

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for instance in `ec2-describe-instances | grep ami-80dd59e9 | grep '^INSTANCE' | cut -f2 -s`; do 
ec2-create-tags $instance --tag "Name=Foobar"
done

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Upgrading like a baws

upgradinate_script.rb

  helper = UpgradinateFileHelper.new 'OLD NESS', 'NEW-NESS'
  helper.upgradinate_files [
      "/path/to/project/Gemfile"
 ]

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  gem 'fast_rake'
  gem 'nokogiri-diff'
  gem 'rcov', '~> 0.9.11' # RUBY 187
  # RUBY 193 gem 'simplecov'
  # RUBY 193 gem 'ehrenmurdick-git-pair'
  # RUBY 193 gem 'debugger'
  gem 'net-ping'

  platform :ruby_18 do # These are problematic in ruby 1.9                                     # RUBY 187
    gem 'system_timer' # Remove this from guardfile when we upgrade (in favor of native timer) # RUBY 187

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/home/yuki/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:761: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]

-- Control frame information -----------------------------------------------
c:0066 p:0015 s:0266 b:0264 l:000263 d:000263 METHOD /home/yuki/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:761
c:0065 p:0011 s:0256 b:0256 l:000255 d:000255 METHOD /home/yuki/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:755
c:0064 p:0048 s:0253 b:0253 l:000252 d:000252 METHOD /home/yuki/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:744
c:0063 p:0182 s:0250 b:0250 l:000249 d:000249 METHOD /home/yuki/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:557
c:0062 p:0031 s:0237 b:0237 l:000ac0 d:000ac0 METHOD /home/yuki/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@potter/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/server.rb:47
c:0061 p:0011 s:0233 b:0233 l:001538 d:000232 BLOCK  /home/yuki/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@potter/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/server.rb:69

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[atlas] $ /bin/bash -e /tmp/hudson595422709483623053.sh
 _        _______  _______  _______
( \      (  ____ )(  ___  )(  ____ \
| (      | (    )|| (   ) || (    \/
| |      | (____)|| |   | || (_____
| |      |  _____)| |   | |(_____  )
| |      | (      | |   | |      ) |
| (____/\| )      | (___) |/\____) |
(_______/|/       (_______)\_______)

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# Install Sublime Text 2 into /Applications
#
# Usage:
#
#     include sublime_text_2
class sublime_text_2 {
  package { 'SublimeText2':
    provider => 'appdmg',
    source   => 'http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime%20Text%202.0.1.dmg';
  }

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class config::sublime {

  define addpkg {
    $packagedir = "/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/"
    $pkgarray = split($name, '[/]')
    $pkgname = $pkgarray[1]

    exec { "git clone https://github.com/${name}.git":
      cwd      => "/Users/${::luser}${packagedir}",
      provider => 'shell',