Puppet users - Feb 2011 - puppet kick and "Could not set 'file on ensure: Is a directory - /var/lib/puppet/facts"

Hello puppet world,

I''m sure this is probably an easy fix, but I cannot seem to resolve
this
issue.  The puppetmaster starts correctly and so does the puppet agent, 
which receives the update correctly if I restart the puppet agent 
service manually or during the timed updates; however, if I perform an 
"puppet kick", it just fails with the following error:

Triggering agent1.example.org
Host agent1.example.org failed: Got 1 failure(s) while initializing: 
change from directory to file failed: Could not set ''file on ensure: Is
a directory - /var/lib/puppet/facts
agent1.example.org finished with exit code 2
Failed: agent1.example.org

I am running puppet 2.6.4, Centos 5.5, and ruby 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 on both 
puppetmaster and agent.  Here is my /var/lib/puppet directory on the 
puppetmaster:

drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Feb  8 10:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Feb  8 11:19 ../
drwxr-x---  2 root root 4096 Feb  8 10:57 client_data/
drwxr-x---  3 root root 4096 Feb  8 10:57 client_yaml/
drwxr-x---  7 root root 4096 Feb  9 13:17 clientbucket/
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 Feb  8 10:57 facts/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  8 10:57 lib/
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Feb  9 13:17 run/
drwxr-xr-t  3 root root 4096 Feb  9 13:17 state/

And in my /etc/puppet/auth.conf on the puppet agent, I have the 
following (mention in release notes somewhere):

path /run
method save
allow *

And, in my /etc/puppet/puppet.conf on the puppet agent (note, the server 
is not puppet.example.org):

[agent]
         server = myserver.example.org
         report = true
         listen = true
         puppetdlog = /var/log/puppet/puppet.log
         logdir = /var/log/puppet
         httplog = /var/log/puppet/http.log
         autoflush = true

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Edwin

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On 2011/02/09, at 15:32, DigitalWonk wrote:
> Hello puppet world,
> 
> I''m sure this is probably an easy fix, but I cannot seem to
resolve this issue.  The puppetmaster starts correctly and so does the puppet
agent, which receives the update correctly if I restart the puppet agent service
manually or during the timed updates; however, if I perform an "puppet
kick", it just fails with the following error:
This is incredibly similar to a problem I''ve been having with the
puppet master[1].  Let me know if you find a resolution.. no one has replied to
my posting or to earlier postings about similar issues from other users.

[1]
<http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/531d110306636003?hl=en#>

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Hello Matthew,

If I find a resolution, I''ll let you know, but as of yet, I do not have
a fix.  After tracing a little into the code on the puppetmaster side, I 
believe the error comes from the puppet agent and not on the puppet 
master, but I cannot confirm this definitively.  I have also tried 
setting the chmod and the owner on the /var/lib/puppet/facts with no avail.

If anyone has any other suggestions as to what to look into, that would 
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Edwin

On 02/09/2011 10:28 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 2011/02/09, at 15:32, DigitalWonk wrote:
>
>> Hello puppet world,
>>
>> I''m sure this is probably an easy fix, but I cannot seem to
resolve this issue.  The puppetmaster starts correctly and so does the puppet
agent, which receives the update correctly if I restart the puppet agent service
manually or during the timed updates; however, if I perform an "puppet
kick", it just fails with the following error:
> This is incredibly similar to a problem I''ve been having with the
puppet master[1].  Let me know if you find a resolution.. no one has replied to
my posting or to earlier postings about similar issues from other users.
>
>
[1]<http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/531d110306636003?hl=en#>
>
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