Puppet users - Jul 2010 - dpkg in puppet returns 2 but at command line returns 0

I have an exec defined as

exec {"dpkg --configure -a":
   path => "/usr/bin:/bin",
   user => root
}

puppet complains:

Exec[dpkg --configure -a]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: dpkg
--configure -a returned 2 instead of one of [0]

but when I run dpkg --configure -a outside puppet it returns 0.

Has anyone ever seen this before or have any insights?

thanks!

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On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Jon Choate wrote:
> I have an exec defined as
>
> exec {"dpkg --configure -a":
>    path => "/usr/bin:/bin",
>    user => root
> }
>
> puppet complains:
>
> Exec[dpkg --configure -a]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed:  
> dpkg --configure -a returned 2 instead of one of [0]
>
> but when I run dpkg --configure -a outside puppet it returns 0.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before or have any insights?

It''s almost got to be something related to your environment or your  
access (i.e., the user you run the commands as).

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ext Jon Choate said:
> I have an exec defined as
> 
> exec {"dpkg --configure -a":
>    path => "/usr/bin:/bin",
>    user => root
> }
> 
> puppet complains:
> 
> Exec[dpkg --configure -a]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: dpkg
--configure -a returned 2 instead of one of [0]
> 
> but when I run dpkg --configure -a outside puppet it returns 0.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen this before or have any insights?
> 
The last time someone reported a problem like this on the mailing list,
it was because the command had to run a subcommand which was not in
PATH.

In particular, `dpkg --configure'' runs postinst scripts for packages
and these might do absolutely anything... at the very least I would
expect that /usr/sbin and /sbin probably need to be in PATH too :-)
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QA Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia

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Thanks! adding /usr/sbin and /sbin seems to have fixed it.



On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Rohan McGovern
<rohan.mcgovern@nokia.com>wrote:
> ext Jon Choate said:
> > I have an exec defined as
> >
> > exec {"dpkg --configure -a":
> >    path => "/usr/bin:/bin",
> >    user => root
> > }
> >
> > puppet complains:
> >
> > Exec[dpkg --configure -a]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed:
dpkg
> --configure -a returned 2 instead of one of [0]
> >
> > but when I run dpkg --configure -a outside puppet it returns 0.
> >
> > Has anyone ever seen this before or have any insights?
> >
>
> The last time someone reported a problem like this on the mailing list,
> it was because the command had to run a subcommand which was not in
> PATH.
>
> In particular, `dpkg --configure'' runs postinst scripts for
packages
> and these might do absolutely anything... at the very least I would
> expect that /usr/sbin and /sbin probably need to be in PATH too :-)
> --
> Rohan McGovern
> QA Engineer
> Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia
>
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