Chef fails when trying to deploy a Torquebox app on EC2 - amazon-ec2

Question

I'm pretty new to Chef/ops in general but I'm trying to deploy on EC2 and I keep running into this error. The stack trace file mentioned in the error does not exist so that's making it kind of hard to debug the problem. Also, whenever Chef fails, the permission on my EC2 box gets denied and I have to spin up a new instance. For reference, the original source of this file is from here: http://janitor.se/blog/2013/07/04/easier-neo4j-dot-rb-deployments-with-chef-plus-capistrano-plus-torquebox/
The error looks like this:
* script[install torquebox backstage] action run
- execute "bash" "/tmp/chef-script20131011-2067-1phzfkw"
[2013-10-11T03:47:51+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-10-11T03:47:51+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2013-10-11T03:47:51+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out
Chef Client failed. 71 resources updated
[2013-10-11T03:47:51+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
ERROR: RuntimeError: chef-solo failed. See output above.
My recipe file - torquebox.rb:
download_file = File.join("/tmp", File.basename(node.torquebox.download_url))
remote_file download_file do
source node.torquebox.download_url
mode 00644
action :create_if_missing
notifies :run, "script[install-torquebox]", :immediately
end
script "install-torquebox" do
Chef::Log.info("Installing torquebox zip file...")
user 'torquebox'
interpreter "bash"
code <<-EOH
unzip -o #{download_file} -d /opt/torquebox/
ln -s /opt/torquebox/torquebox-2.3.2 /opt/torquebox/current
EOH
notifies :run, "execute[change ownership to torquebox]"
not_if do
File.exists? "/opt/torquebox/torquebox-2.3.2"
end
# not_if do
# File.exists? "/opt/torquebox/torquebox-2.2.0"
# end
#action :nothing
end
template "/etc/profile.d/torquebox.sh" do
source "torquebox.sh.erb"
mode 00644
owner 'root'
variables(
:jboss_user => node[:torquebox_env][:jboss_user],
:torquebox_home => node[:torquebox_env][:home],
:jboss_pidfile => node[:torquebox_env][:jboss_pidfile],
:jboss_console_log => node[:torquebox_env][:jboss_console_log],
:jboss_config => node[:torquebox][:configuration_file],
:jruby_opts => node[:torquebox_env][:jruby_opts],
:java_environment_file => node[:java][:java_environment]
)
notifies :restart, "service[jboss-as-standalone]"
end
# install torquebox backstage
#
execute "change ownership to torquebox" do
user "root"
cwd "/opt"
Chef::Log.info("changing ownership for torquebox")
command "chown -Rv 1000.1000 /opt/torquebox"
notifies :run, "script[install torquebox backstage]"
action :nothing
end
script "install torquebox backstage" do
Chef::Log.info("Installing torquebox backstage file...")
interpreter "bash"
user "torquebox"
cwd "/opt/torquebox"
code <<-EOH
export TORQUEBOX_HOME=/opt/torquebox/torquebox-2.3.2
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk7/
export JBOSS_HOME=$TORQUEBOX_HOME/jboss
export JRUBY_HOME=$TORQUEBOX_HOME/jruby
export PATH=$JBOSS_HOME/bin:$JRUBY_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
EOH
# jruby -S gem install torquebox-backstage
# jruby -S gem install ruby-shadow
# jruby -S backstage deploy
not_if do
File.exists? "/opt/torquebox/current/jruby/bin/backstage"
end
end
directory '/opt/apps/' do
owner "torquebox"
group "torqubox"
mode 00755
action :create
not_if do
File.exists? "/opt/apps/"
end
end
directory "/etc/jboss-as" do
owner "root"
group "root"
mode 00755
action :create
not_if do
File.exists? "/etc/jboss-as"
end
end
directory "/var/log/jboss-as" do
owner "torquebox"
group "torquebox"
mode 00755
action :create
not_if do
File.exists? "/var/log/jboss-as"
end
end
template "/etc/init.d/jboss-as-standalone" do
source "jboss-as-standalone.sh.erb"
variables(:environment_file => node[:torquebox][:environment_file])
mode 00755
owner 'root'
notifies :restart, "service[jboss-as-standalone]"
end
service "jboss-as-standalone" do
supports :status => true, :restart => true, :stop => true, :start => true
action [ :enable, :start ]
end
#if clustered then if cluster name is staging_cluster, so proxy name will be staging_cluster_proxy
#so for every cookbook, it should be paired with two of them
proxy_nodes = []
clustered_nodes = []
Chef::Log.warn("clustered status #{node[:torquebox][:clustered]}")
if node[:torquebox][:clustered]
clustered_nodes = search(:node, "roles:#{node[:torquebox][:cluster_name]}")
proxy_nodes = search(:node, "roles:#{node[:torquebox][:cluster_name]}_proxy")
template "/opt/torquebox/current/jboss/standalone/configuration/standalone-ha.xml" do
source "standalone-ha.xml.erb"
variables(:node_name => node.name, :node_ipaddress => node.ipaddress, :cluster_name => node[:torquebox][:cluster_name], :clustered_nodes => clustered_nodes, :proxy_nodes => proxy_nodes )
mode "0644"
notifies :restart, "service[jboss-as-standalone]"
end
end
if proxy_nodes.count == 0 and node[:torquebox][:clustered] == true
Chef::Log.warn("There is no proxy defined, cluster may not function")
end
if !node[:torquebox][:clustered]
template "/opt/torquebox/current/jboss/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml" do
source "standalone.xml.erb"
variables(:node_name => node.name, :node_ipaddress => node.ipaddress)
mode "0644"
notifies :restart, "service[jboss-as-standalone]"
end
end
template "/opt/torquebox/current/jboss/bin/standalone.conf" do
source "standalone.conf.erb"
mode "00644"
owner 'torquebox'
variables(:jboss_config => node[:torquebox][:configuration_file])
notifies :restart, "service[jboss-as-standalone]"
end
cookbook_file "/etc/jboss-as/jboss-as.conf" do
source "jboss-as.conf"
mode 00644
owner 'root'
end
# NGINX!
# this enables our site, kinda like a2ensite
execute 'enable-site' do
command "ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-available/#{node[:server_name]} /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/#{node[:server_name]}"
notifies :restart, 'service[nginx]'
end
# Our configuration template. Take a look at templates/nginx.conf.erb to see what's going on.
template "/etc/nginx/sites-available/#{node[:server_name]}" do
source 'nginx.erb'
owner 'root'
group 'root'
mode 0644
notifies :run, "execute[enable-site]", :immediately
variables(
server_name: node.server_name
)
end
service 'nginx'
service 'jboss-as-standalone'