Server Crash when Viewing Role in UI with Dependency Mismatch

[mbamber]

Chef Server Version

12.4.1

Platform Details

Running on Ubuntu 16.04 on AWS

Scenario:

Viewing a role via the web UI causes the chef server to crash if the role contains a version mismatch.

i.e. If I try and view role my-role, which contains cookbook1@1.0.0 and cookbook2@1.0.0, but cookbook1@1.0.0 itself requires cookbook2@2.0.0 then the server will crash trying to display this information.

I know this may be down to how we use Chef, and obviously the version mismatch is our fault and we have since fixed this, but I feel like the server shouldn't completely fail in this situation, and should instead just show an error in the UI.

[markan]

Thank you for reporting this issue.

What version of manage do you have installed?
What exactly happens during the crash? Does the manage interface crash? Is it limited to the web frontend or does the API also go down? Does the server backend restart after?

[mbamber]

Hi @markan

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you about this.

$ cat /opt/opscode/version-manifest.txt | grep -i chef-server
chef-server 12.4.1

I can't really explain what happens in more detail other than the web interface completely freezes and just shows the spinning chef logo. It's both the frontend and the API that crashes as I cant interact with the server using knife.

No the server doesn't restart automatically.