[Puppet Users] Re: puppetd doing noting as daemon

Avi Miller
Fri, 29 May 2009 08:32:49 -0000

Hi,

Vincent Louviaux wrote:
> I have a lot of systems where the puppetd doesn''t do anything ..

Have you recently upgraded Puppet and/or Facter? If so,  you are hitting
the same Facter bug that I did with EL4.  Essentially, Facter hangs
trying to read /proc/uptime and /proc/virtual (on my XenU guests). You
should try the new Facter 1.5.5RC1 which has the fixes for these to see
if that resolves the problem.

I actually had to manually fix all my servers because Puppet had
stopped working. Also, when upgrading Facter, make sure you restart
Puppet (if you''re running a daemon), otherwise you can also run into
problems I''ve discovered.

Hope that helps,
Avi