[DRE-maint] Bug#773698: chef-server-api: Error 500 returned by Chef Server

[Piotr Pańczyk]

Package: chef-server-api
Version: 10.12.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I'm getting error 500 (Net::HTTPFatalError: 500 "Internal Server Error") from
Chef Server when running the client, probably due to big amount of data returned
by Ohai. I tried connecting the same node to newer version of Chef Server (Open
Source Chef Server 11.1.6-1 downloaded from Chef's website) and it returned
Net::HTTPServerException: 413 "Request Entity Too Large". The workaround is to
disable passwd plugin in Ohai, but I'd prefer to store all data on the server.
Please consider extending the data limit.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.bsd54h0 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chef-server-api depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  chef                          10.12.0-3
ii  chef-solr                     10.12.0+dfsg-2
ii  couchdb                       1.2.0-5
ii  merb-core                     1.1.3+dfsg-2
ii  rabbitmq-server               3.4.2-1
ii  ruby                          1:1.9.3
ii  ruby-dep-selector             0.0.8-1
ii  ruby-json                     1.7.3-3
ii  ruby-merb-assets              1.1.3-1
ii  ruby-merb-core [merb-core]    1.1.3+dfsg-2
ii  ruby-merb-haml                1.1.3-2
ii  ruby-merb-helpers             1.1.3-1
ii  ruby-merb-param-protection    1.1.3-1
ii  ruby-mixlib-authentication    1.1.4-2
ii  ruby-treetop                  1.4.10-5
ii  ruby-uuidtools                2.1.2-2
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2
ii  thin                          1.3.1-3
ii  ucf                           3.0025+nmu3

chef-server-api recommends no packages.

chef-server-api suggests no packages.

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