Puppet users - Jan 2008 - Could not set file on ensure: undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass

Hi,

I had a working puppet setup using version 0.22 until the ruby security
patch bit me.  I tried upgrading server and clients to 0.24.1 however my
old manifests don''t seem to work anymore. When I run puppetd on the
client I see lots of messages like:

err:
//Node[waterbuck]/yumupdater/Remotefile[/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater]/File[/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater]/ensure:
change from absent to file failed: Could not set file on ensure: undefined
method `[]'' for nil:NilClass at
/raid/puppet/manifests/definitions/remotefile.pp:15

The remotefile.pp looks ok to me:

----------- remotefile .pp
$server = "puppet"

# The same as a file, except that the source is always taken
# relative to the /config module on the file server
define remotefile($owner = root, $group = root, $mode = 644, $source,
                  $backup = false, $recurse = false, $ensure = file) {
    file { $name:
            mode => $mode,
            owner => $owner,
            group => $group,
            backup => $backup,
            recurse => $recurse,
            ensure => $ensure,
            source => "puppet://$server/files/$source"
    }
}
--------------------

It''s used in:
--------------------
class yumupdater {
        remotefile { "/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater":
                source =>
"os/$operatingsystem/$lsbdistrelease/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater",
                ensure => file,
                mode => 755 }
}
---------------------

Any idea what I''m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Nico

This is a known bug, have a look at the bug report:

Undefined method error in pfile/source.rb when source for file
resource does not exist
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/1008

Cheers,
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/blog/

On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a working puppet setup using version 0.22 until the ruby  
> security
> patch bit me.  I tried upgrading server and clients to 0.24.1  
> however my
> old manifests don''t seem to work anymore. When I run puppetd on
the
> client I see lots of messages like:
>
> err: //Node[waterbuck]/yumupdater/Remotefile[/etc/cron.hourly/ 
> yumupdater]/File[/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater]/ensure: change from  
> absent to file failed: Could not set file on ensure: undefined  
> method `[]'' for nil:NilClass at
/raid/puppet/manifests/definitions/
> remotefile.pp:15

Sorry for the slow response; can you send a stack trace for this?

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