knife bootstrap fails without any message

[PrakashSompura]

We use Scientific Linux 6.1 for our environment. While knife bootstrap the node few of the nodes fail without any message. It does not create node or client. However knife bootstrap is completely successful on some nodes. All nodes have exactly the same configuration. knife bootstrap creates the folders /etc/chef and /opt/chef.

$ knife bootstrap -x root

Connecting to
Failed to authenticate root - trying password auth
Enter your password:
Installing Chef Client...
--2014-12-09 19:20:33-- https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
Resolving www.opscode.com... 184.106.28.90
Connecting to www.opscode.com|184.106.28.90|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18285 (18K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: “STDOUT”

100%[======================================>] 18,285 --.-K/s in 0.003s

2014-12-09 19:20:33 (5.10 MB/s) - written to stdout [18285/18285]

Downloading Chef 11 for el...
downloading https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=11&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=el&pv=6&m=x86_64
to file /tmp/install.sh.16652/metadata.txt
trying wget...
url https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chef-11.16.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
md5 2355a7a93bc4cc353bee6de9e3bcb7ba
sha256 278599ff185b680703e7a779db8674eeba843e9fe42a0ae06e01a9dfa9ac4d0e
downloaded metadata file looks valid...
downloading https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chef-11.16.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
to file /tmp/install.sh.16652/chef-11.16.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
trying wget...
Comparing checksum with sha256sum...
Installing Chef 11
installing with rpm...
warning: /tmp/install.sh.16652/chef-11.16.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 83ef826a: NOKEY
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:chef ########################################### [100%]
Thank you for installing Chef!
Starting first Chef Client run...

Folder contents are:

ls -ls /etc/chef /opt/chef
/etc/chef:
total 12
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Dec 9 19:20 client.rb
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Dec 9 19:20 first-boot.json
4 -rw------- 1 root root 1676 Dec 9 19:20 validation.pem

/opt/chef:
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 19:20 bin
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 9 19:20 embedded
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1899 Oct 7 22:40 version-manifest.txt

[thommay]

Hi,
sorry for the slow response. Did you ever get to the bottom of this problem? If it's still occurring, could you try running sudo chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json after bootstrapping fails and attach the output of that to this ticket?

[cheeseplus]

Closing given the age and lack of response.

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