Puppet users - Aug 2008 - "Found multiple default providers" error

Just upgraded to latest puppet version, am now getting these errors:

warning: Found multiple default providers for service: freebsd,
debian; using freebsd

I''m using Ubuntu - about half the time it says "using
debian", the
other half it choose freebsd.  When it chooses freebsd all hell breaks
loose (it can''t handle any services correctly, tries to restart
services that are already running, fails to restart services, etc.).

I can go through all my code and add provider => ''debian''
to all my
service definitions, but I''m wondering if anyone has any better ideas.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

-Steve
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On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:38 PM, steve caldwell wrote:
>
> Just upgraded to latest puppet version, am now getting these errors:
>
> warning: Found multiple default providers for service: freebsd,
> debian; using freebsd
>
> I''m using Ubuntu - about half the time it says "using
debian", the
> other half it choose freebsd.  When it chooses freebsd all hell breaks
> loose (it can''t handle any services correctly, tries to restart
> services that are already running, fails to restart services, etc.).
>
> I can go through all my code and add provider =>
''debian'' to all my
> service definitions, but I''m wondering if anyone has any better
ideas.
>
> Any help is much appreciated, thanks.
Erm...  Each of those providers is only listed as the default for  
their respective platforms, so something very screwy is going on.

What does facter say your operatingsystem is?  Is there anything that  
could indicate to it that you''re running FreeBSD instead of Ubuntu/ 
Debian?

What about if you run puppetdoc -r providers?  What does that say  
about the service providers?  Anything useful?

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On Aug 4, 5:19 pm, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com>
wrote:
>
> What does facter say your operatingsystem is?  Is there anything that  
> could indicate to it that you''re running FreeBSD instead of
Ubuntu/
> Debian?
>
BTW, I should mention I''m running all of this in a virtual machine -
kvm running an Ubuntu 7.10 guest on an Ubuntu 7.10 host

I added this:

  file { "/tmp/os.txt" :
    mode => 666,
    content => $operatingsystem,
  }

And ran puppetd --test a bunch of times.  There were basically 3
scenarios that happened in this order over my multiple executions of
puppetd:

- I didn''t get any "Found multiple default providers" errors
  content of /tmp/os.txt: Debian

- I got "warning: Found multiple default providers for service:
debian, freebsd; using debian"
  content of /tmp/os.txt: Ubuntu

- I got "warning: Found multiple default providers for service:
freebsd, debian; using freebsd"
  content of /tmp/os.txt: Ubuntu
> What about if you run puppetdoc -r providers?  What does that say  
> about the service providers?  Anything useful?
steve@web:~$ puppetdoc -r providers
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/type/pfile.rb:243: warning:
already initialized constant CREATORS
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine/variable.rb:6:in
`summarize''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:72:in `inject''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine/variable.rb:6:in
`each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine/variable.rb:6:in
`inject''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine/variable.rb:6:in
`summarize''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine_collection.rb:
36:in `summary''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine_collection.rb:
35:in `each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confine_collection.rb:
35:in `summary''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/confiner.rb:18:in
`suitable?''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reference/providers.rb:50:in
`generate''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reference/providers.rb:44:in
`each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reference/providers.rb:44:in
`generate''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reference/providers.rb:28:in
`each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reference/providers.rb:28:in
`generate''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/reference.rb:153:in `to_rest''
/usr/bin/puppetdoc:137:in `send''
/usr/bin/puppetdoc:137
/usr/bin/puppetdoc:132:in `each''
/usr/bin/puppetdoc:132
Could not generate reference providers: undefined method `fact'' for
#<Puppet::Provider::Confine::Variable:0xb6e0e2a8>
steve@web:~$
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On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:56 PM, steve caldwell wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 5:19 pm, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> wrote:
>>
>> What does facter say your operatingsystem is?  Is there anything that
>> could indicate to it that you''re running FreeBSD instead of
Ubuntu/
>> Debian?
>>
>
> BTW, I should mention I''m running all of this in a virtual machine
-
> kvm running an Ubuntu 7.10 guest on an Ubuntu 7.10 host
>
> I added this:
>
>  file { "/tmp/os.txt" :
>    mode => 666,
>    content => $operatingsystem,
>  }
>
> And ran puppetd --test a bunch of times.  There were basically 3
> scenarios that happened in this order over my multiple executions of
> puppetd:
>
> - I didn''t get any "Found multiple default providers"
errors
>  content of /tmp/os.txt: Debian
>
> - I got "warning: Found multiple default providers for service:
> debian, freebsd; using debian"
>  content of /tmp/os.txt: Ubuntu
>
> - I got "warning: Found multiple default providers for service:
> freebsd, debian; using freebsd"
>  content of /tmp/os.txt: Ubuntu
So basically, if your machine thinks it''s Debian, everything''s
fine,
right?

Sounds like we need to 1) Fix Facter so it''s always correct about your
OS and 2) modify the providers so they include ''ubuntu'',
rather than
just debian.
>
>> What about if you run puppetdoc -r providers?  What does that say
>> about the service providers?  Anything useful?
>
> steve@web:~$ puppetdoc -r providers
> /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/type/pfile.rb:243: warning:
> already initialized constant CREATORS
This file hasn''t existed in at least two releases, I think; it is  
likely the source of this problem, although unrelated to the provider  
issues.

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