Remote Directory resource fails

[Soulou]

Hi,

I'm using chef-solo

$ chef-solo --version
Chef: 11.4.4

I'm unable to use mongo-10gen::single recipe because it fails with the default recipe, here are the logs :

  * remote_directory[/data/mongodb] action create
================================================================================
Error executing action `create` on resource 'remote_directory[/data/mongodb]'
================================================================================


Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound
------------------------------
cookbook mongodb-10gen has no directory files/default/mongodb


Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In /tmp/chef-solo/site-cookbooks/mongodb-10gen/recipes/default.rb

 76: remote_directory "/data/mongodb" do
 77:   source "mongodb"
 78:   recursive true
 79:   files_group "mongodb"
 80:   files_owner "mongodb"
 81:   files_mode 00644
 82:   owner "mongodb"
 83:   group "mongodb"
 84:   mode 00755
 85: end
 86: 



Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in /tmp/chef-solo/site-cookbooks/mongodb-10gen/recipes/default.rb:76:in `from_file'

remote_directory("/data/mongodb") do
  provider Chef::Provider::RemoteDirectory
  action :create
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  path "/data/mongodb"
  recursive true
  source "mongodb"
  files_backup 5
  files_owner "mongodb"
  files_group "mongodb"
  files_mode 420
  overwrite true
  cookbook_name :"mongodb-10gen"
  recipe_name "default"
  owner "mongodb"
  group "mongodb"
  mode "0755"
end



[2013-06-18T12:41:10+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-06-18T12:41:10+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 4 resources updated
[2013-06-18T12:41:10+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-06-18T12:41:10+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: remote_directory[/data/mongodb] (mongodb-10gen::default line 76) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: cookbook mongodb-10gen has no directory files/default/mongodb
ERROR: RuntimeError: chef-solo failed. See output above.

Whereas the files are correctly on the server :

/tmp/chef-solo/site-cookbooks/mongodb-10gen/files/default/mongodb# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 12:06 misc

[sawanoboly]

@Soulou

Please tell me your environments.

I tried to check your report in Ubuntu12.04 on the Joyent VirtualMachine.
A remote_directory resource works fine.

# chef-solo -v
Chef: 11.4.4
# chef-solo -c solo.rb -o 'mongodb-10gen::single'

-- snip -- 
Recipe: mongodb-10gen::default
  * file[/etc/default/mongodb] action create_if_missing
    - create new file /etc/default/mongodb with content checksum a35762
        --- /tmp/chef-tempfile20130630-3670-1fbnvdm 2013-06-30 10:06:55.000000000 +0000
        +++ /tmp/chef-diff20130630-3670-1goh2ch 2013-06-30 10:06:55.000000000 +0000
        @@ -0,0 +1 @@
        +ENABLE_MONGODB=no

  * package[mongodb-10gen] action install
    - install version 2.4.4 of package mongodb-10gen

  * directory[/data] action create (up to date)
  * remote_directory[/data/mongodb] action create
    - create new directory /data/mongodb
    - change mode from '' to '0755'
    - change owner from '' to 'mongodb'
    - change group from '' to 'mongodb'Recipe: <Dynamically Defined Resource>
  * directory[/data/mongodb/misc] action create
    - create new directory /data/mongodb/misc
    - change mode from '' to '0755'
    - change owner from '' to 'mongodb'
    - change group from '' to 'mongodb'
-- snip -- 

[Soulou]

I'm using chef-solo to bootstrap a VM from digital ocean with Ubuntu 12.04. So the environment is quite identical as yours, The chef version is the last one (as it has been bootstrapped)

The resource should work, I'm going to do some additional tests.

[sawanoboly]

mmm... I have never use the digital ocean.

How about changing value of file_cache_path?

[teyrow]

I had the same problem. Seems to be a bug in chef in remote_directory. Since my knife solo cook did not rsync the .gitkeep-files the dirs where empty.
Found work around by adding empty files in subfolders to /mongodb-10gen/files/default/mongodb :

.
|____db
| |____.gitkeep
| |____a.txt
|____etc
| |____.gitkeep
| |____a.txt
|____log
| |____.gitkeep
| |____a.txt
|____misc
| |____.gitkeep
| |____.mongorc.js

And for now it works.

[sawanoboly]

@Soulou @teyrow

Thanks a lot! I had updated cookbook and share.

979c7d9

[Soulou]

Thank you @teyrow I hadn't the time to test further, happy to see I'm not alone =)