Puppet users - Feb 2007 - Gracefully recovering from state.yaml corruption.

Hello,

I have recently attempted to automatically restart my network interfaces when I
update my network configuration files.  During this process it seems that one
out of every three or so runs will cause the state.yaml file to become corrupt. 
The next run of puppet will respond with messages similar to
"can''t find object :nil".  Deleting the state.yaml file and
running puppet does fix this problem but I do not know how I would do this on a
fully automated remote system.

Is there some option in puppet to make it check the state file and delete it if
it is corrupted or not able to be parsed?

Thank you,

-- Rob --




 
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On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Robert Mombro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently attempted to automatically restart my network  
> interfaces when I update my network configuration files.  During  
> this process it seems that one out of every three or so runs will  
> cause the state.yaml file to become corrupt.  The next run of  
> puppet will respond with messages similar to "can''t find  
> object :nil".  Deleting the state.yaml file and running puppet does  
> fix this problem but I do not know how I would do this on a fully  
> automated remote system.
>
> Is there some option in puppet to make it check the state file and  
> delete it if it is corrupted or not able to be parsed?
That''s actually what it''s supposed to be doing now.

The state file is a bad solution anyway, so I''ve been kind of  
neglecting it, but please file this as a bug.

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