chef-client run doesn't finish about chef_client_updater HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @tas50 I tried the kill action method on another box and that worked fine. My thought is that maybe you should consider changing the default action to kill? (rather than exec)
In Exec mode the chef-client is hung and won't run again until terminated or the system is rebooted. In windows the chef-client installation creates a schedule tasks which will terminate a long running process after 3days.

That would be a long time to wait, just my 5p worth :)

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As I have a couple of machines in Azure (same template and version of Chef I thought I would enable debug within the client.rb.

Might be significate but there was a couple of extra lines, going to sleep and the run of ohai.

[2017-06-27T16:02:52+00:00] INFO: powershell_script[name] ran successfully
[2017-06-27T16:02:52+00:00] WARN: Replacing ourselves with the new version of Chef to continue the run.
[2017-06-27T16:02:58+00:00] DEBUG: Sleeping for 0 seconds
[2017-06-27T16:02:58+00:00] DEBUG: Running Ohai with the following configuration: {}
[2017-06-27T16:02:58+00:00] WARN: Chef client 5032 is running, will wait for it to finish and then run.

Hope that helps

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@username-is-already-taken2 If you set the post install action to kill this will probably resolve itself. The old client hasn't been killed and the new client won't run if the pid file for the previous client is still active.

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After a reboot, re-running the chef-client removed the file that was kicking around.

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A reboot would achieve the same end result of killing the old process. If you use kill as the post install action this will probably work as expected without a reboot. I'll close this out. Feel free to open it back up if you give that a try and it doesn't work.

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we might want to document this in the README, i also saw this happen a bunch but never got around to tracking it down...

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