Puppet users - Dec 2012 - puppet-dashboard install not generating 'dashboard' cert

Hello,

I''m trying to get puppet-dashboard installed on a CentOS 6.3 machine 
running puppet v3.0.1.

I''m following the puppet-dashboard documentation here: 
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/configuring.html

In the documentation page linked above, it says:

Puppet uses SSL certificates to control who can make requests to the puppet
> master, so Dashboard has to obtain a signed cert before asking for facts or
> files. To do this, edit config/settings.yml to ensure that the ca_server
> and ca_port settings match the address and port of your puppet master, 
> then run the following commands:
>
> $ sudo -u puppet-dashboard rake cert:create_key_pair
> $ sudo -u puppet-dashboard rake cert:request
>
> You’ll need to sign the certificate request on the master by running puppet
> cert sign dashboard. Then, from Dashboard’s directory again, run:
>
 However, here''s what I get when I follow the documentation:

[root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# sudo -u puppet-dashboard rake
> cert:create_key_pair
> [root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# sudo -u puppet-dashboard rake 
> cert:request
> [root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# puppet cert sign dashboard
> *Error: Could not find certificate request for dashboard*
> [root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# ls -lah certs
> total 8.0K
> drwxr-xr-x  2 puppet-dashboard puppet-dashboard 4.0K Dec 17 17:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root             root             4.0K Dec 17 11:35 ..
>
As you can see from the last command, no certificate files are actually 
generated.

I verified that the puppet server is indeed running on the
''ca_server'' on
''ca_port'' as defined in config/settings.yml

In fact, I can manage to get a certificate as root:

[root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# rake
cert:create_key_pair
> DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/delayed_job/tasks are 
> deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from 
> /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/rails.rb:10)
> [root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# ls -lah certs
> total 16K
> drwxr-xr-x  2 puppet-dashboard puppet-dashboard 4.0K Dec 17 17:09 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root             root             4.0K Dec 17 11:35 ..
> -r--r-----  1 root             root              887 Dec 17 17:09 
> dashboard.private_key.pem
> -rw-------  1 root             root              251 Dec 17 17:09 
> dashboard.public_key.pem
>
...but this breaks on the next command (probably because I''m root)

[root@puppetmaster-01 puppet-dashboard]# rake
cert:request
> DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/delayed_job/tasks are 
> deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from 
> /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/rails.rb:10)
> rake aborted!
> 500 "Internal Server Error"
>
Tasks: TOP => cert:request
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Can anyone help me figure out why the ''puppet-dashboard'' user
cannot
generate a ''dashboard'' certificate using `sudo -u
puppet-dashboard rake
cert:create_key_pair`?

Any help will be much appreciated!
-Michael

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