I recently had an issue after adding the reboot Chef resource to one of my cookbooks. I kept receiving the following errors during the Kitchen converge step and couldn’t figure out what was going on:
>>>>>> ——Exception——-
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed.
>>>>>> Failed to complete #converge action: [No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. – No connection could be
made because the target machine actively refused it. – connect(2) for “10.40.20.127” port 5985 (10.40.20.127:5985)] on default-w2008r2
>>>>>> ———————-
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details
>>>>>> Also try running `kitchen diagnose –all` for configuration
>>>>>> ——Exception——-
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed.
>>>>>> Failed to complete #converge action: [[WSMAN ERROR CODE: 2150858843]: <f:WSManFault Code=’2150858843′ Machine=’10.40.20.127′ xmlns:f=’http
://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsmanfault’><f:Message>The WS-Management service cannot process the request because the request contained inval
id selectors for the resource. </f:Message></f:WSManFault>] on default-w2008r2
>>>>>> ———————-
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details
>>>>>> Also try running `kitchen diagnose –all` for configuration
The Recipe
My recipe was similar to the example implementation on the reboot documentation page:
reboot ‘now’ do
action :nothing
reason ‘Cannot continue Chef run without a reboot.’
delay_mins 2
endexecute ‘foo’ do
command ‘…’
not_if ‘…’
notifies :reboot_now, ‘reboot[now]’, :immediately
end
Notice I also added a not_if guard to ensure I only rebooted if it was truly needed. In my case, I only expected it to reboot once.
Troubleshooting
At first I thought the converge run was timing out waiting on the reboot to complete. The reboot functionality add a few settings to control this in the provisioner config.
There are three new settings on the provisioner:
retry_on_exit_code– which takes an array of exit codes that can indicate that kitchen should retry the converge command. Defaults to an empty array.max_retries– number of times to retry the converge before passing along the failed status. Defaults to 1.wait_for_retry– number of seconds to wait between converge attempts. Defaults to 30.
https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-1-10-0-released/8721
The Solution
After several hours I finally questioned whether my guard was working appropriately. In the end I found the guard was always returning false after some further testing. This produced a reboot loop.
Chef unit tests don’t execute scripts, you can only mock them. So always make sure to test your guards are valid by testing on the target server.
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